The success of lyceums in the antebellum United States was because of
a. a lack of public high schools
b. a lack of public libraries
c. the same impulse for improvement that prompted the reform movements
d. the desire of women isolated in their homes for adult company
e. a national feeling of cultural inferiority
Ans: c. the same impulse for improvement that prompted the reform movements
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The Spanish encomienda system rewarded Spanish conquistadores with
A) a yearly salary. B) land titles to Native American villages. C) estates in Spain. D) appointments to the royal court.
The individual who met with U.S. officials, formed the Republican (Insurgent) Army of the North, and was supported by U.S. Army officer Augustus Magee in his fight against the Spanish was __________
A. José María Morelos B. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca C. José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara D. Lorenzo de Zavala
Throughout the 1780s, the British government refused to send a diplomatic minister to America.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following played a key role in undermining the Knights of Labor?
a. The Haymarket Riot b. The Great Strike of 1877 c. The Pullman Strike d. The Homestead Strikec