Which of the following was true of Benjamin Banneker?
A) He was the son of illiterate parents.
B) He lived the life of a country gentleman.
C) He was an ardent Loyalist.
D) He was a personal friend of Thomas Jefferson.
Answer: B
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General Motor's Alfred Sloan's major contribution to the automaking industry was
A) adopting new approaches to advertising and marketing. B) refining the production process. C) demonstrating the logic of mass production. D) reducing production costs.
Which of the following statements does NOT reflect the ideas of Charles C. Jones, Jr., on slaves?
a) Slaves who sought Union lines should be given "terrible corporal punishment." b) Masters should be encouraged to let their slaves live outside the home and earn wages as long as they kept them under control. c) Slaves should be encouraged to practice the Christian religion. d) Slaves would seek freedom due to "ignorance, credulity, (and) pliability." e) Slavery was the natural and proper condition for blacks.
Ivan Pavlov is considered the founder of ____________________, a theory which insists that the controlling factors in most behavior are the rewards and punishments that follow the behavior
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Black northerners did not initially serve in the Union army during the Civil War for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
a. whites worried that blacks would use military service as a ground for demanding their rights as citizens. b. blacks in the North refused to enlist in the military until the Union made the emancipation of southern slaves an official aim of the war. c. white officers believed that blacks would make poor soldiers who would flee in the face of danger. d. Lincoln worried that allowing blacks to serve might compel the Border States to secede.