The significance of the Morrill Land Grant Act was that
A) It provided 160 acres free to settlers who lived on the land for five years.
B) It gave money to states to establish universities that emphasized agriculture and mechanical arts.
C) It offered free land to Union veterans after the war.
D) It ensured land to former slaves along the coast of South Carolina.
E) It provided Union widows 50 acres of land and a mule.
B
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In the 1730s and 1740s, __________ abandoned its tradition of fair dealing and perpetrated a series of fraudulent seizures of western lands from the Delaware Indians
A) Pennsylvania B) Massachusetts C) Virginia D) Maryland
The social ethic that prevailed in late nineteenth-century America stressed that
A) social class should determine social rank. B) greed had more to do with success than good character did. C) economic success was available to anyone who worked hard. D) family background should determine social rank.
Theodore Roosevelt became known as a "trust-buster" because he directed the Justice Department to prosecute
a. Standard Oil. b. Northern Securities Company. c. Hormel Meatpackers. d. American Telegraph and Telephone. e. American Tobacco Company.
All of the following contributed to the rise of massive labor strikes in the years after World War I except
A) ?Escalating inflation B) ?A labor glut of returning soldiers seeking jobs C) ?The shift from wartime production D) ?Declining faith in unions