The only transcontinental railroad built without government aid was the

a. New York Central.
b. Northern Pacific.
c. Union Pacific.
d. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe.
e. Great Northern.


e

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What will be an ideal response?

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The massive nineteenth-century influx of Irish immigrants into the United States was accompanied by:

A. The passage of restrictive immigration laws B. Legislation lengthening residency requirements for citizenship C. The growth of anti-Catholic sentiment D. A nationwide typhoid fever epidemic

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Internal opposition to the war in European nations came largely from

A) factory owners and businessmen ruined by wartime inflation. B) liberals and socialists appalled by the scale of human slaughter. C) government ministers terrified of losing complete control over armies and the civilian populations being fed into the military. D) ethnic minorities and women convinced that they would lose newly won rights as the war progressed, leading to increased repressive government policies. E) the lower classes who were drafted or conscripted into the armies and fought in the trenches.

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Sephardim Jews were originally from

a. Spain. b. Germany and Poland. c. Hungary. d. Italy. e. Amsterdam.

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