Before the Civil War, free blacks
a. were far more numerous in the North than in the South.
b. were often the mulatto offspring of white fathers and black mothers.
c. were often forbidden basic civil rights.
d. found their greatest friends and sympathizers in poor Irish immigrants.
e. were disliked in the North as well as the South.
b, c, e
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Andrew Carnegie’s principal method of reducing the costs of steel manufacture was
a. the trust. b. liberal exploitation of the principle of limited liability. c. vertical integration. d. monopoly. e. horizontal integration.
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A. a late outbreak of the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century killed half the country's population. B. it was a small country with a small population. C. the Portuguese tired of the expenses of naval exploration and focused on their European land empire. D. the English, French, and Dutch formed a lasting alliance designed to force the Portuguese to surrender. E. a Chinese resurgence of naval exploration forced the Portuguese out.
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