Which American literary figure celebrated the railroad as "the modern emblem of motion and power–the pulse of the continent"?
A) Mark Twain
B) Walt Whitman
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) Henry David Thoreau
B
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Which of the following was a characteristic of New Netherland that led it to be described as a system of “unstable pluralism”?
a) weak leadership b) ethnic homogeneity c) representative institutions d) linguistic uniformity
Which of the following statements is not a reason why the Constitution was ratified in 1788?
A) Supporters of the Constitution had much more recognizable leaders. B) Alexander Hamilton and James Madison made spirited arguments in favor of the Constitution. C) A Bill of Rights was added in 1787 to persuade opponents of the Constitution to accept it. D) Supporters of the Constitution were much better organized. E) Most newspapers favored ratification of the Constitution.
What core idea was at the heart of the Republican party?
A) the importance of diversity B) racial equality C) opposition to federal intervention in the economy D) opposition to slavery in the western territories
Alger Hiss, an editor at Time magazine, accused Whittaker Chambers, a high-ranking State Department official, of giving him secret government documents to pass along to the Soviet Union.
a. true b. false