Why did most settlers move west between 1870 and 1900?
A) to seek freedom from religious persecution
B) to escape the drab routine of factory life
C) to escape the diseased conditions of crowded eastern cities
D) to improve their economic situation
E) to escape from invading Native American groups
Answer: D
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Philip II built the massive palatial complex of _________, incorporating a royal residence, a monastic school and a royal necropolis, a very short distance away from the then small provincial city of Madrid.
a. Aranjuez b. RiofrÃo c. La Granja d. El Escorial
According to Bartolomé de Las Casas:
a. Spain needed to institute a more humane system of Native American slavery in order to avoid offending Pope Paul III. b. Spain had caused the deaths of millions of innocent people in the New World. c. despite his opposition to slavery, he needed to keep his slaves so that he would have time to devote to working for abolition and emancipation. d. slavery needed to be eliminated entirely from the earth. e. converting Native Americans to anything but Catholicism would lead to their death.
Carl is in medical school. His wife, Hannah, is a full-time retailer and manages all the household responsibilities so that Carl can study. This is an example of a(n)
A. cooperative marriage. B. two-person career. C. two-person marriage. D. egalitarian marriage.
President Bush's announcement that the United States would withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia and build a national missile defense system was an indication that:
A. Bush was more sympathetic to his father's views on foreign affairs than to Ronald Reagan's. B. Bush was a sly politician who, by refusing to be swayed by the criticisms of foreign governments, intended to win over the conservative Democrats he needed to push his agenda through Congress. C. Bush was an independent thinker who was not going to be controlled by strong-minded members of his administration such as Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. D. Bush wanted the United States to plot a unilateralist course in international affairs.