What was phrenology?
What will be an ideal response?
Phrenology was a popular pseudo-science that focused on the relationship between the bumps on the human head and character and personality. At a time when America was experiencing rapid change, and urban Americans lived in an impersonal world filled with strangers, phrenology offered a way to see an individual's true character.
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The Haitian Revolution made it possible for the United States to open up the Mississippi Valley to the domestic slave trade.
a. true b. false
Woodrow Wilson, in his message "The New Freedom," pledged to:
A) give African Americans unbiased economic opportunities. B) provide women with equal pay for equal work. C) destroy big businesses and promote smaller ones. D) speed up the industrialization of America. E) give citizens more control in political decisions.
Which of the following is an accurate description of the Sons of Liberty, created in 1765?
A. The organization was founded by colonists who opposed the colonial resistance movement. B. This intercolonial association was created by the elite in an attempt to channel crowd action into acceptable forms of resistance. C. This intercolonial association was founded by a group of newspaper editors who composed a series of essays on the subject of liberty. D. The organization was strongest in the South and was composed of radicals who demanded separation from Great Britain.
The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry was founded in 1867 by
A) Henry George. B) Daniel De Leon. C) James S. Hogg. D) Oliver H. Kelley.