What development signaled the growing political power of African Americans in the late twentieth century?
What will be an ideal response?
Election of African Americans as mayors of many cities
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How did the emergence of the factory system change the face of American labor during the first half of the nineteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
The leading figure at the Albany Congress, and designer of the Albany Plan, was ________
A) Thomas Jefferson B) George Washington C) William Pitt D) John Adams E) Benjamin Franklin
President Thomas Jefferson's Indian policy included
A. an offer to Indians to become settled farmers and join white society, and to reorganize their territory as a separate state in the Union. B. an offer to Indians to become settled farmers and join white society, and an insistence that they give up claims to tribal lands in the Northwest. C. an offer to Indians to have full citizenship in the United States and the right to vote. D. an offer to Indians to reorganize their territory as a separate state in the Union. E. the insistence that Indians reduce the size of their exclusive tribal lands in the Northwest, as well as allow some limited hunting by white settlers on those lands.
Prior to European contact, the eastern third of what is today the United States
A. was politically controlled by the Cahokia Indians. B. remained for the most part uninhabited. C. had the most abundant food resources of any region of the continent. D. contained no permanent settlements. E. was populated by tribes that engaged in hunting and gathering but did not yet farm.