Which of these caused the United States to grow the most?
a) land won from the Mexican War
b) the annexation of Alaska
c) the Louisiana Purchase
d) the Gadsden Purchase
c) the Louisiana Purchase
Though the land won in the Mexican War was vast, the Louisiana Purchase was by far the greatest land deal in the history of the United States, with land being purchased for pennies an acre.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
What were the recommendations of the Kerner Commission?
A) strengthening of local police forces to ensure that law and order could be maintained in the nation's cities. B) increases in federal expenditures for programs that provided assistance to urban African-Americans. C) financing a system of medical care for the elderly. D) a 20 percent increase in the defense budget, a five-fold increase in the purchase of intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the building of nuclear submarines armed with Polaris missiles. E) more jails, larger police forces, and a reinstitution of the death penalty.
As a result of the Cuban-Soviet relationship, which of the following was true?
a. Agricultural production in Cuba declined, causing malnutrition on the island. b. Cuban markets dried up internationally. c. Unemployment became rampant. d. Suppression of educational facilities by Castro nearly destroyed literacy in Cuba. e. By the mid-1960s, the Cuban economy had recovered and stabilized.
Researchers measured students’ passive acceptance before and after taking a gender and women’s studies class and found that students’ passive acceptance ______.
A. remained the same B. increased C. decreased D. increased for women, but not for men in the class