Which of the following is true of the frontier farmers of the 1870s and 1880s?
A) Only the "bonanza" farmers survived the drought of the late eighties.
B) They farmed the land with little knowledge or concern for preventing erosion or preserving fertility.
C) Cultivating the prairie grasslands was quite similar to their experience in Ohio and Illinois.
D) Farmers who diversified their crops were most likely to fail.
B
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Virginia was centered on the:
A) Delaware River. B) Chesapeake Bay. C) Albemarle Sound. D) Hudson River.
Slave cabins were usually
a. crowded but sanitary. b. clean and spacious. c. unhealthy. d. comfortable.
As part of his justification for invading Iraq, President Bush accused the Iraqi government of
a. harboring Osama bin Laden. b. orchestrating the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States. c. protecting war criminal Saddam Hussein. d. developing weapons of mass destruction. e. torturing Jews and Christians.
During the Great Depression, the new socialist countries in Europe promised to reduce economic hardship with all of these measures EXCEPT
a. a comprehensive educational system. b. a strong and growing military. c. health care. d. unemployment insurance. e. housing subsidies.