Where were the earliest permanent English settlements in the New World?
A) Barbados
B) Florida
C) Cuba
D) Massachusetts
E) Virginia
Ans: E
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A) Vermont B) Tennessee C) Ohio D) Maine
What is significant about the result of the disputed election of 1876?
A) It was the final Radical Republican victory. B) It meant the end of the Reconstruction era. C) It marked the beginning of a Republican resurgence nationwide. D) It demonstrated the political power of southern African Americans. E) It was resolved more quickly than anyone expected.
In his novel A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
a. ridiculed the narrowness of suburban, middle-class life. b. used the muckraking style to criticize large industries. c. rejected traditional values and the idealism of his youth. d. satirized the era's mass consumerism.
The greatest advantage which early canals offered was
A) a direct link between western areas and the eastern seaboard. B) the low cost of their construction. C) their use of cheap, efficient steam engines as their means of power. D) a route by which ocean-going vessels could sail into the back country.