Benjamin Banneker’s abilities as a __________ led to employment with the federal government
A) historian
B) poet
C) mathematician
D) literary critic
Answer: C
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a. the Whigs were disorganized and ineffectual as a national party. b. the party was sharply divided on principles. c. Whig leaders hoped to throw the election into the House of Representatives, as in 1800 and 1824, where they believed they would command a majority of the state delegations. d. none of these choices. e. all of these choices
What was the term for a region greatly affected by the revivals of the Second Great Awakening?
a. Bible Belt b. Burned Over District c. Zion d. Promised Land
Which of the following steps did Herbert Hoover not take to revive the economy after the stock-market crash?
A) He advised municipal and state governments to create jobs through public-works projects. B) He set up the Emergency Committee for Employment to coordinate the efforts of voluntary relief agencies. C) He persuaded Congress to pass the National Industrial Recovery Act, which embodied ideas of industrial self-regulation and business-government cooperation. D) He persuaded Congress to establish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make loans to banks and other lending institutions. E) He urged business leaders to maintain wages and employment.
Semitic people of the coastal regions of the near East were bound to a sense of shared identity by which factor?
a. religion b. trade c. language d. geopolitical organization e. being enemies of Sumeria