What did the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation accomplish in 1862?
A) It freed all the slaves in the United States.
B) It freed no one during that year.
C) It appeased white southerners.
D) It freed some slaves in 1862 and the rest in 1863.
Answer: B
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The Thirteenth Amendment
A) ?was ratified after the Civil War had ended. B) ?outlawed slavery in the United States. C) ?was passed as Republicans feared that courts would overturn the Emancipation Proclamation. D) ?was passed as fall elections in 1864 gave Republicans a strong majority in Congress. E) ?All of these are correct.
Which of the following features was NOT a characteristic of the Hudson River school?
A. canvases that tended to be very large in size B. portraits of some of the nation's most spectacular and undeveloped areas C. a belief that democracy was the best source of wisdom and spiritual fulfillment D. a sense of nostalgia for a kind of nature that might be disappearing E. an assumption that America was a land of greater promise than Europe
Slavophilism in nineteenth-century Russia advocated all of the following except
a. liberation of the serfs. b. rejection of foreign cultural influences. c. reverence for the Orthodox Church. d. a conservative and paternalistic tsar. e. unifying people under sobornost by widening representation in the parliament.
Stalin's five year plan involved
A) collectivization of farming. B) development of industry. C) cooperatives set up for farmers and rapid industrialization. D) rapid industrialization and an end of private industry. E) collectivization of farming and development of industry.