Which of the following factors accounted for the doubling of the European population in the nineteenth century?
a. Fewer epidemics
b. Improvements in the health sciences
c. Lack of widespread wars
d. Better nutrition
e. All of these
e
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The most influential literary critic of the late nineteenth century was
A) Mark Twain. B) Henry James. C) Stephen Crane. D) William Dean Howells.
Which of the following was NOT a reform instituted by Tsar Alexander II?
A) He allowed the formation of a national assembly. B) He encouraged the establishment of primary schools. C) He established local political councils. D) He abolished serfdom for Russia's peasants. E) He reduced the terms of military enlistment.
What is true about southern economic redevelopment?
A. One success of the postwar South was in laying as much railroad track as the rest of the nation combined. B. Republican-dominated Reconstruction governments sought to encourage southern industry. C. Unlike the North, southern governments became notorious for corruption, which explains the skyrocketing public debt. D. Northerners known as "scalawags" came south to exploit the South's economic vulnerability.
Which of the following best describes the development of farming in the Americas?
A. It focused largely on the cultivation of grains, such as wheat, barley, and rice. B. It occurred over several thousand years and coexisted with foraging practices. C. It was a carefully planned venture only taken up after the approval of communal leaders. D. It occurred in a relatively short amount of time and was adopted by all early Americans after its introduction.