Which of the following acts offered 160 acres of land to anyone who would pay a $10 registration fee and pledge to live on the land and cultivate it for five years?
a) Homestead Act of 1862
b) National Reclamation Act
c) Newlands Act
d) Dawes Severalty Act
a) Homestead Act of 1862
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A) scientific agriculture movement in the South. B) antislavery forces in New England. C) most sensational slave uprising in the early nineteenth century. D) secessionist wing of the Southern Democrats.
René Descartes believed that scientific inquiry should begin with
A) rigorous skepticism. B) inductive observations. C) analytic geometry. D) deep faith in God. E) desire to improve the human condition.
Why did some samurai and daimyo ally with Emperor Go-Daigo in the 1330s?
A) to place their own shogun in power B) to support the emperor against the Hojo regents C) to establish a council-style government D) to reassert their power as imperial regents
President Nixon's policy of increased heavy bombing of North Vietnam in December 1972
A) caused the People's Republic of China to send a large army to North Vietnam to fight the United States. B) destroyed all chance of a negotiated peace because Le Duc Tho walked out of the Paris peace talks in protest. C) caused the North Vietnamese to release their supplies of nerve gas and anthrax. D) broke the deadlock in the peace talks and got the North Vietnamese to agree to terms. E) brought Nixon close to defeat in his bid for reelection that year.