By focusing on the machine to remove water from the archeological dig, Charles Wilson Peale's painting Exhuming the First American Mastodon addresses __________

A) Jefferson's lack of interest in the study of fossils
B) an examination of the past rather than the present
C) the successes of American science and engineering
D) opposition to the use of slave labor


C

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Which one of the following did NOT occur during President Reagan's terms in office?

A) Both inflation and unemployment rates declined. B) Disposable personal income per capita increased. C) The income gap between rich and poor widened. D) The federal budget deficit declined.

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Around 1,000 to 600 b.c.e., a Mede named ________ changed the traditional Aryan worship and was renamed Zoroaster by the Greeks

A. Ahura Mazda B. Zarathushtra C. Ahriman D. Vedic E. Shahanshah

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A persuasive speech may attempt to change someone's _______

A) attitude B) beliefs C) actions D) all of the above

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What was a typical characteristic of sharecropping for blacks?

A) Blacks generally could dispute the landowner's valuation of crops or goods. B) Black men were forced to accept the white man's word in disputes over crop prices or the value of goods provided to the sharecroppers. C) Cotton brokers and gin owners paid equal prices to blacks and to whites for cotton. D) Contracts had to be written and had to be filed in court.

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