Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. By 2000, 23 states had passed laws establishing English as their official language.
2. The protesters assembled at the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle represented a striking mix of industrial workers and environmentalists.
3. The Enron Corporation became famous in the 1990s for its leading part in the computer revolution, especially in software.
4. In the 1990s, blacks predominated among the growing ranks of incarcerated Americans.
5. In 2000, more than half of the labor force in the United States worked for less than $14 an hour.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. True
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In 1905, William Monroe Trotter, W. E. B. Du Bois, and John Hope invited two-dozen black leaders to meet at Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada, to:
A) formalize their resistance to Booker T. Washington's leadership. B) celebrate Booker T. Washington's far-sighted policy of accommodation. C) form an African American political party to agitate for change. D) launch a new colony for black Americans fleeing racial oppression.
Prohibition:
a. added millions of dollars in revenue to the United States Treasury b. discouraged the growth of lawbreaking and organized crime c. helped emphasize deep cultural divisions in American society d. ended the production of "moonshine" and other homegrown American forms of alcohol
In _____________________, Wyoming granted equal and complete voting rights to women
A) ?1869 B) ?1879 C) ?1889 D) ?1899 E) ?1909
Of the following, the pair that is least well matched is
a. Homer and the Iliad. b. Solon and a Spartan military leader. c. Draco and law codes. d. Pisistratus and tyranny. e. Athens and Democracy.