Manufacturing with interchangeable parts was first developed for producing:
A) firearms.
B) steam engines.
C) agricultural machinery.
D) clocks.
Answer: A
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A) The rate of colonization was far too low to be effective. B) American blacks found the cultures of their new lands very familiar. C) All blacks supported colonization, and looked forward to moving to Africa. D) Colonization occurred only in North Africa.
Which of the following is true of the scientific revolution?
A. It was not rapid. B. It involved a large collective of people that numbered in the thousands. C. It was not a complex movement and had few false starts. D. Everything associated with the revolution was new and groundbreaking. E. It amounted to a rejection of Christianity.
In comparison to his predecessors, Dwight Eisenhower
A) had difficulty in getting people to work for him. B) had little desire to be president. C) was abrupt and aggressive in his actions. D) had limited experience with everyday politics.
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a. the Republican call for a tariff of 16 cents for every dollar spent on imported goods. b. the Populist demand for setting railroad rates at no higher than a dollar for the shipment of sixteen bushels of wheat. c. the Democratic and Populist call for unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 ounces of silver to one ounce of gold. d. the Democratic platform plank of 16 paper dollars in circulation for every dollar´s worth of gold in the national treasury. e. the Populist demand for a graduated income tax starting at sixteen percent on the highest incomes and falling to one percent on the lowest.