The Homestead Act
a. enabled genuine farmers rather than land promoters to acquire most of the homesteads made available.
b. was designed in part to promote Indian assimilation.
c. meant that most land on the Great Plains was acquired for free.
d. was blighted by the fraud and corruption that plagued many government programs in the Gilded Age.
e. was criticized as a federal government giveaway.
d
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Which of the following can be noted of President Wilson in his dealing with race relations?
A) He ignored minorities and appointed only white Southerners to his cabinet. B) He refused to segregate the few federal agencies that had employed blacks. C) He approved requests from the NAACP to support an anti-lynching law. D) He blocked legislation granting United States citizenship to Puerto Ricans.
Labor unions, Populists, and debtors saw in the brutal Pullman episode
a. proof of an alliance between big business, the federal government, and the courts against working people. b. a strategy by which united working-class action could succeed. c. the need for a socialist party in the United States. d. the potential of the federal government as a counterweight to big business. e. the fallacy of using labor for organizing strikes to achieve economic gains for working-class citizens.
Indian removal act of 1830
What will be an ideal response?
What was the principal cause of the 1937 recession?
A. a further decrease in European export markets B. declines in private sector production C. severe cuts in federal spending and jobs programs D. a sharp downturn in the stock market