Continental army officers who formed the Society of the Cincinnati
a. were brought to trial for trying to sabotage civilian government.
b. were ridiculed for their lordly pretensions.
c. were trying to force the Congress to pay them their pensions.
d. reflected the Revolutionary War generation's spirit of equality.
e. represented the best of the officer corps.
b
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a. Those who were born to prominent families continued to lead, though their incomes declined. b. They no longer enjoyed popular assumptions that they should rule. c. It caused the decline of the competitive capitalist society in early America. d. Power came to be determined more by class than wealth.
During the period from just before the Civil War to just after Reconstruction, per capita income for African Americans rose significantly while per capita income for whites dropped.
a. true b. false
Which of the following was NOT a concern of President Cleveland regarding the Cuban revolt?
A. a refugee crisis B. social chaos C. local population not capable of self rule D. destruction of American-owned property
What did the freedmen request in their "Petition of Committee on Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson" in 1865?
What will be an ideal response?