The Board of Trade's power to recommend disallowance of colonial laws was
A) used against only a small percentage of the laws which it reviewed.
B) theoretical only, since the Crown seldom accepted its recommendation.
C) used against more than half of the laws which it reviewed.
D) ended by a royal order of 1696 because of the colonists' petition.
A
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If the United States was to become the "great arsenal of democracy," it had to ______________________.
A. take and maintain control over the important oil fields in the Middle East B. successfully convert major industries from production of consumer goods to production of military materiel C. convince corporate leaders to finance the retooling of their factories for the production of war materiel D. solve transportation problems between the United States and Europe
__________ took the lead in reorganizing the American railroad industry.
a. J. Edgar Thomson b. Henry Bessemer c. George Pullman d. J. P. Morgan
The message of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The American Scholar" was for American artists to
A) challenge Americans' faith in progress, technology, and human goodness. B) stress the role of reason and intellect in the pursuit of the truth. C) create distinctly American forms of art rooted in the facts of American life. D) investigate the darker side of human nature by looking at moral conflicts in the lives of ordinary Americans.
After the election of 1876 the Reconstruction Republican governments collapsed in the last two southern states, ____________________ and ____________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word