In 1865, the number of Native Americans living in the West was __________
a. 10,000
b. 250,000
c. 500,000
d. 750,000
e. 1,000,000
B
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The Tredegar Iron Company of Richmond decided in 1847 to shift from white to slave labor to
A) destroy the potential power of organized white workers to strike. B) reduce the costs of labor and capital investments. C) offer slaves useful skills for their later lives as free blacks. D) expand the pool of slave laborers for industrial enterprises.
All of the following are true statements about the Homestead Act except
a. it was consistent with previous government public land policy designed primarily to raise revenue for government. b. about a half million families carved out new homes in the 40 years after its passage. c. ten times more of the public land ended up in the hands of land speculators than farmers. d. thousands of people didn't last the five years required by the Homestead Act. e. the standard 160 acres provided to farmers proved to be inadequate on the rain-scarce Great Plains.
What is one major reason for the higher literacy rates in British colonies than in Spanish/Portuguese colonies?
a. Paper was harder to maintain in the warm, humid Spanish/Portuguese colonies. b. The British government invested massive funds into building libraries throughout North America. c. Protestantism, which encouraged the reading of the Bible, was the dominant form of Christianity in the British colonies. d. Spanish/Portuguese colonizers did not attempt to teach Native Americans to speak or read Spanish/Portuguese.
Montesquieu was a critical philosophe of the Enlightenment. What made him so influential?
A) His model of the separation of powers of the government into three branches; executive, legislative, and judicial was widely accepted and enacted, along with his system of checks and balances. B) His enlightened stance against absolutism C) He was friend to many governments, due to his rational and empirical approach to the problems of humanity. D) His vast knowledge of a variety of enlightened topics E) None of these