Which of the following statements about immigrants in the West in the late 1800s is false?
A) Nearly one-third of all Californians were foreign-born.
B) Many Chinese came to the U.S. to serve as cheap labor on the railroads.
C) There were large populations of Spanish-speaking immigrants in the Southwest.
D) Although a few did live in the West, Irish and German immigrants almost exclusively immigrated to Eastern states.
D
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Which of the following statements about the Moche civilization of the Andes is correct?
a. The Moche civilization was governed by warrior-priests. b. The Moche civilization consisted of a series of independent city-states. c. The Moche civilization sponsored a religious movement that spread throughout the Andes. d. The Moche civilization, unlike other civilizations of Central and South America, does not appear to have practiced human sacrifice.
The Oneida community:
a. allowed each member an equal vote in governing the community. b. permitted all of its members to own private property. c. banished any member who divulged any information about the community's sexual practices. d. invented the concept of birth control in America. e. controlled which of its members would be allowed to reproduce.
What was the meaning of the phrase “regeneration before Reconstruction”?
A) restructuring southern society before readmission to the union B) funding the rehabilitation of those areas in the South damaged during the war C) transforming southern society, including land reform, before readmission D) repudiating the debts owed by the former Confederate states to the Union E) suspending military rule in the South until elections could take place
The black patron who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white patron was
a. Rosa Parks. b. Coretta Scott King. c. Marian Anderson. d. Fannie Lou Hamer. e. Ella Fitzgerald.