How accurate is the image of the West as a land free from the curse of eastern industrial technology?
What will be an ideal response?
Not accurate at all! Students should point to a wide variety of ways that technology enabled whites to settle the West. Without metallurgical techniques, there could not have been a mining industry. Farming came to rely on eastern technology (to say nothing of eastern financing). Without barbed wire and the railroad, there could not have been a cattle industry.
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A) undetermined B) free territory C) slave territory D) neutral territory E) Indian territory
Mansa Musa established the city of ________ as a center of learning, focusing on Islamic law but also offering courses in a wide variety of sciences.
a. Ijebu. b. Fez. c. Sofala. d. Timbuktu.
Which artistic style was a reaction against Realism?
a. Naturalism b. Cubism c. Post-Impressionism d. Symbolism e. Romanticism
How did Senator Joseph McCarthy finally contribute to his own downfall?
a. He charged that fellow senators were communist dupes. b. He took on the U.S. Army in front of millions of television viewers. c. He appeared on the Senate floor in an obviously inebriated state. d. He publicly stated that President Eisenhower was a "communist sympathizer."