Which of the following is true of Denis Kearney?
a. He and his followers intimidated employers in San Francisco into refusing to hire people of Chinese descent.
b. He was the motivating force behind the massacre of hundreds of Chinese immigrants.
c. As a member of the San Francisco city council, he gained passage of a city ordinance prohibiting anyone ofChinese descent from living within the
city limits.
d. He argued that immigrants who were not of Anglo-Saxon descent should not be allowed to becomenaturalized citizens of the United States.
a
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A. Britain B. Spain C. France D. Germany
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A) religious discord. B) the ivory trade. C) the slave trade. D) conflict over land usage for hunting and cattle. E) racial equality.
The root cause of the American farmers' problems after 1880 was
a. underproduction of agricultural foodstuffs. b. foreign competition. c. the declining number of farms and farmers. d. the shortage of farm machinery. e. low prices and a deflated currency.
How do historians explain the reasons for Indian arrival at the missions and their conversion?
a. Many California natives came to the missions out of curiosity and converted without fully understanding the implications of their actions. b. Soldiers sometimes seized Indians and brought them to the missions where they came under the authority of the padres. c. Environmental factors played a role in attracting Indians to the missions, and conversion became a method to ensure survival. d. All of the above partly explain why Indians came to the missions and converted to Christianity.