As a result of Silent Spring, ________________________.
A. most farmers stopped using pesticides until they were proven to be environmentally safe
B. the widespread use of DDT in the United States ended
C. the government established a process by which it began to test the safety of America's farm produce
D. environmentalists organized a boycott that was successful in forcing farmers to stop using harmful pesticides
Answer: B
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A. whites from the Far West. B. recently-arrived European immigrants. C. white northerners. D. free blacks. E. white southerners and their slaves.
How was the United States different from European industrializing nations in the late nineteenth century?
a. The United States did not have a major political party explicitly committed to the cause of labor. b. The United States did not have access to the quantity of raw materials available to European countries. c. The United States did not have the level of technology innovation as other industrializing nations. d. The United States did not have the level of available capital compared to the capital available to European corporations.
The Dominion of New England
a. briefly united all of England’s American colonies. b. was organized in response to the Glorious Revolution. c. promoted local government. d. eliminated local assemblies. e. all of these choices.
In the 1820s, John C. Calhoun proposed his doctrine of nullification
A. as an alternative to possible secession. B. to support trade tariffs. C. to counter the growing influence of abolitionism in the North. D. to reduce the political power of Andrew Jackson. E. as a means to end the national bank.