What was the main reason that resistance leaders wanted members of the South End and North End gangs to participate in anti?Stamp Act demonstrations?
a. If the demonstrations caused adverse consequences, they would fall on gang members rather than onresistance leaders
b. Their participation would show that people of all social classes opposed the act.
c. Gang members were much more experienced in leading demonstrations to protest British actions.
d. Gang members were adept at avoiding arrest.
b
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Which of the following statements about urbanization is accurate?
A. As bad as American cities were, they were more orderly and beautiful than their European counterparts. B. American cities proved the truth of "America, the melting pot." C. American cities were dull, boring, and lifeless. D. American cities were characterized by a mixture of social classes, ethnic groups, and racial groups that sometimes lived in harmony and sometimes did not.
Many progressive reformers supported prohibition legislation because
a. prohibition laws had succeeded at reducing alcoholism in western Europe. b. they believed alcohol was a cause of poverty and many other social problems. c. they wished to break monopolies controlled by liquor manufacturers. d. it was a major aspect of the Socialist Party's platform.
The development of the North and the South differed in that the South
A) had fewer cities B) used more wage labor C) did not participate in international commerce D) did not expand to the West
Which of the following helped promote industrialization in the United States in the early nineteenth century?
A) government subsidies for factory construction B) the Alien and Sedition Acts C) the Embargo Act of 1807 D) the ban on the importation of slaves