The Homestead Act
A) granted land to settlers willing and able to farm the land for five years.
B) promised freedom from taxation to Western landholders.
C) guaranteed military protection from Indians to Western settlers.
D) barred most ex-slaves and other non-whites from Western settlement.
E) denied land to Eastern speculators and corporations.
A
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A) It is a mystic strain of Islam that rejects materialism and embraces a simple lifestyle. B) It is a strain of Islam that encourages the faithful to join with the umma to combat secularism. C) It is a fundamentalist branch of Islam that encourages jihad. D) It is a branch of the Sunni that encourages warfare with the Shi'ites.
Between 1950 and 1985, the population of Latin America increased from 165 to ________ million
A) 400 B) 200 C) 600 D) 800
The Dutch influence on native populations in Indonesia can best be described as
a. the creation of separate spheres without efforts to civilize or transmit culture. b. an aggressive campaign for cultural assimilation. c. a hybridization of European and Asian religious elements that peacefully coexisted. d. an economic expansion, only with no investment in local infrastructure. e. rigorous insistence that they stay separate from the Muslims.
Which of the following ended the calm rule of Ionia by Greece, stirring the Ionian Rebellion?
A. the Athenian victory at Marathon B. the suicide of Cambyses C. the death of the Persian king Cyrus the Great D. the private troubles of the ambitious tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras