What "forces of division" were operating in the British colonies during the first half of the eighteenth century? Discuss with specific reference to at least two of the following areas: immigration, the backcountry, boundary disputes, and seaport towns.
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During the Mexican War, northern Whigs began to characterize the war as a/an:
A) unwinnable conflict. B) racist plot against a weaker nation. C) southern conspiracy to expand slavery. D) Mexican scheme to claim disputed gold fields on the Colorado.
Many Americans accepted which of the following beliefs in the 1950s? a. The diversity within American society means that tension and conflict are inevitable in the United States. b. Citizens in a mass democracy must always harbor a healthy distrust of their elected officials and questiontheir decisions
c. Americans must work to bring about the moral regeneration of American society. d. As the United States struggles against the Soviet Union for the future of the world, critics of America aresuspect and perhaps even unpatriotic.
The people who benefited most from the Homestead Act were the __________
A) employees of the Government Land Office B) land speculators C) cattle barons D) homesteaders
What was remarkable about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
A. It established a code of allowable war tactics when UN intervention had failed. B. It provided an internationally binding code of civil rights. C. It allowed citizens to hold their governments accountable for human rights violations. D. It established a court for the trials of Nazi war criminals. E. It set fundamental guidelines for treatment of prisoners of war.