During the early 1940s, the Manhattan Project was established to create the
A) atomic bomb.
B) United Nations.
C) jet airplane.
D) Central Intelligence Agency.
Ans: A) atomic bomb.
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A) use the army to run the railroads and draft the strikers into the military B) jail the strikers as suspected members of the Communist Party C) hire strikebreakers in their place to keep the railroads going D) outlaw sympathy boycotts by other unions who wanted to support the strikers
What statement about the workers' world of the 1880s and 1890s is true?
A. The industrial workplace increasingly called for skilled craftsmanship. B. Farm workers still outnumbered industrial workers. C. On balance, the workers' lot entailed stagnant wages, rising prices, and longer working hours. D. Each year, industrial mishaps injured over 500,000 workers.
During the Seven Years' War, some Anglo-American merchants from which cities continued to engage in illegal trade with the French West Indies?
A. Albany, Baltimore, and Quebec B. Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Wilmington C. Albany, New York, and Quebec D. Boston, Philadelphia, and New York
One of the main objectives of the aristocratic founders of Carolina was to
a. provide a utopian settlement for reformed convicts. b. grow foodstuffs to provision sugar plantations in the West Indies. c. provide a measure of religious tolerance to Catholics and Protestant dissenters. d. establish sugar plantations without resorting to slave labor. e. develop strong trade between the southern and northern colonies.