Which of the following was true of the construction of the transcontinental railroad?
a. Chinese workers did some of the most difficult and dangerous work.
b. One railroad company was responsible for the whole project.
c. Private investors paid for the whole project.
d. It was a financial failure.
a. Chinese workers did some of the most difficult and dangerous work.
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African art
A. consists only of poetry and sculpture. B. is very limited, due to the fact that wood was the universal medium of artistic statement. C. contains no other major examples of architectural achievement except the pyramids. D. includes the impressively crafted, mortar-less structures at Great Zimbabwe. E. appeared only with the coming of Islam.
Spaniards born in Spain were called __________
A) criollos B) peninsulares C) mestizos D) caudillos
This photograph showing the ruins of Columbia, South Carolina, after Union forces set fire to it demonstrates the __________
A) dangers of a successful slave insurrection B) results of an unsuccessful attempt to hold peace negotiations in that city C) Union's desire for vengeance on South Carolina, which started the secession movement D) Confederacy's reluctance to defend one of its greatest strongholds