The first reaction of urban cultural critics to news a railroad was coming was almost always to celebrate
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
ANS: F
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President Jefferson was enthusiastic about the Louisiana Purchase for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) the purchase of the city of New Orleans helped solve the problem of securing more commerce and exports for his western constituents. B) it represented a significant political victory for Jefferson and reduced the political influence of the Federalists. C) it transferred the vast land holdings that France claimed along the west side of the Mississippi River beginning in New Orleans and extending through the heart of North America to the Great Lakes. D) he was confident the Constitution authorized the federal government to make such a huge purchase of land.
The so-called "Zimmermann telegram"
A. included a German offer to help Mexico take back the some of the American Southwest. B. revealed that Germans were attempting to foment a race riot in the American South. C. was intercepted by agents working for the United States. D. revealed plans by Germany to expand the use of its submarine fleet. E. helped weaken public support in the United States for war.
In Ethics, the most famous of his works, ________ closely identified God and nature, an idea for which his contemporaries condemned him
A. Hobbes B. Spinoza C. Descartes D. Mendelsohn E. Locke
The leader of the tobacco industry in the late nineteenth century was
A) Gustavus Swift. B) Cornelius Vanderbilt. C) John D. Rockefeller. D) James B. Duke.