How did the direction of American foreign policy during the Cold Ware compare to the foreign policy after the Cold War?
a. The foreign policy focus on military action during the Cold War was much smaller than the military action during the post-Cold War period.
b. The Cold War priority on blocking communism was disconcerting to Americans, while the period after the Cold War had a clear focus on countering terrorism.
c. America’s security had been deeply at risk during the Cold War but was not at near the risk level after the Cold War.
d. America’s foreign policy during the Cold War often lacked clarity and purpose, while after the ColdWar a clear danger to America’s interests was present.
c. America’s security had been deeply at risk during the Cold War but was not at near the risk level after the Cold War.
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The reasons for the deteriorating working conditions and declining wages experienced by factory girls in the mills of New England towns during the 1830s and 1840s included all of the following EXCEPT
A) an agricultural depression in New England foreclosed the possibility of these young women quitting their factory jobs and returning home, leaving these workers with little economic leverage. B) the increased domestic and English competition from new mill owners who built large, cost-efficient operations in New England and England for an international cotton market depressed workers' wages in the 1830s and 1840s. C) the strikes initiated by these young women in the 1830s and 1840s against mill factory owners failed to result in any improvement of their wages and working conditions. D) the young women who worked in these mills declined to join any industrial unions which might have helped them bargain collectively for better working conditions and wages.
In the early 1800s, the commercial advertisements by mill owners in publications such as the Lowell Offering accomplished all of the following EXCEPT
A) attracted new investors to the business. B) attracted new young single women from New England farms to work in the mill factories and live in the mill towns. C) exaggerated the benevolence of the mill owners and the healthy and virtuous working conditions and good life of the young single women who labored in these factories and lived in these factory towns. D) recurited child laborers as young as 10-years old to replace the single young women who proved to be recalcitrant and incompetent workers.
The results of the 1854 congressional elections were significant because they a. demonstrated strong northern support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. b. ended up being the last time the South was assured of a sympathetic majority in Congress. c. marked the first time a sectional party based on a sectional issue had gained substantial power in the politicalsystem
d. resulted in such an even division of power between the parties that meaningful action by Congress wasvirtually impossible.
George Catlin advocated
a. placing Indians on reservations. b. efforts to protect America's endangered species. c. continuing the rendezvous system. d. keeping white settlers out of the West. e. the preservation of nature as a national policy.