What was true of the New Immigrants' efforts to preserve their culture in America?
a. They successfully managed to preserve their food traditions and languages for several generations.
b. Their children helped pass on the culture brought from the Old World.
c. Their children often abandoned traditional culture to become fully American.
d. They opened stores and restaurants, but with few customers, most of these businesses failed.
e. They successfully shared holidays, customs, and manners of the Old World with people in their new homeland.
c
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a) railroads b) canals c) highways d) airlines
Which of the following beliefs is part of the body of ideas known as Wilsonianism?
a. Empires must be dismantled in keeping with the principle of self-determination. b. Democratic nations should build more arms to demonstrate their resolve against autocracy. c. Each nation must protect its own domestic markets through tariff laws. d. Secret agreements among nations are often necessary when national security is involved.
The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?
a. Admitted Texas to the Union as a slave state. b. Admitted California to the Union under the principles of popular sovereignty. c. Prohibited slavery in the District of Columbia. d. Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law. e. Adjusted the Texas-Mexico boundary.
Disgruntled former students from Lane Theological Seminary helped to found which school that became a hub of antislavery activism and the first avowedly integrated school of higher learning?
a. Oberlin College b. Princeton University c. Mary Washington College d. Howard University