What did the Pendleton Act do?
A) It established a civil-service commission to prepare competitive exams for federal jobs.
B) It required the use of silver as well as gold to back paper currency.
C) It started the policy of having separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites.
D) It raised tariff rates.
E) It gave Congress the power to investigate and oversee railroad activities.
A
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a. strove to duplicate what they saw in the world. b. rejected the notion of reproducing what they saw exactly. c. imitated the work of "primitive" artists in non-western cultures. d. believed that art should be socially relevant. e. accepted the Renaissance view of the world as inherently orderly and rational.
Which of the following is true of women in the West?
a. Through the home mission movement many women helped sustain family and community life. b. Virtually all of the women who moved to the West in the late nineteenth century were prostitutes. c. They were usually single and moved to the West to establish their own economic independence. d. Like most males, women who moved to the West were individual prospectors and received financial backingfrom eastern banks.
After the expulsion of Christian missionaries and other Westerners, the Japanese allowed only the Dutch access to Japan
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
What are the effects of being a low-wage worker? Why are women more likely than men to be low-wage workers? Discuss the effects of the glass ceiling and the wage gap on women and their families.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).