The British pulled out of Boston when
a) Washington launched a full scale assault on the city to drive them out.
b) Washington promised to burn them out unless they left immediately.
c) the colonials blocked the mouth of Boston Harbor, preventing the British from
getting any more supplies.
d) the colonials placed fifty-seven cannon and mortars in a makeshift fort
overlooking Boston.
e) Patriots living within the city began guerilla activities, harassing the redcoats both
day and night.
d
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Which of the following events prompted the Mormons to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois and set out West to the valley of the Great Salt Lake?
a. Continuing vicious hostility by non-Mormon Americans including the murder of Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother b. A vision by the Mormon angel Moroni to Brigham Young of a peaceful, bountiful, and safe refuge in the valley of the Great Salt Lake c. The expectation that a lush, easily arable western enviornment awaited the Mormons in present-day Utah, which would not require or expensive and technologically sophisticated irrigation to grow crops d. A generous land grant by the federal government e. All of these choices are correct.
_____ placed restrictions on what fields of business the new immigrants could enter, where they could live, and where they could find work
A) Empiricists B) Constructivists C) Irishmen D) Germans E) Nativists
Roosevelt regretted making the statement, "Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination," because he __________
A) ran for the office of president in the very next election B) ran for the office of senator at the end of his life C) appointed his successor, William Howard Taft, and controlled his actions from behind the scenes D) decided to run for the presidency eight years later E) was legally barred from running again after having served two full terms as president
What was the Res Gestae?
A) the book Augustus wrote about his life's work B) the Roman belief in hard work, strength, and discipline C) the new type of government that Diocletian established D) the unfinished epic poem about Caesar and Pompey by Lucan E) the book of epistles written and collected by Pliny the Younger