Why were railroads "America's first big business"? How did they help to foster a "managerial revolution"?
What will be an ideal response?
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Explain how the American colonies in the early eighteenth century were becoming more like Europe than they had been in the seventeenth century
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The election of 2000 was finally settled when:
A the Supreme Court ordered a ceasing of additional Florida recounts. B) Florida completed a recount showing the state was won by Bush. C) Al Gore called for the recount to end. D) Bush and Gore agreed that Bush had won.
Why did Americans oppose the plans of Churchill and Stalin for the Balkans?
A. They believed those plans did not follow the spirit of Wilson's Fourteen Points. B. They wanted to set up American spheres of influence in the same areas of Europe as Britain would. C. They feared that British spheres of influence would hurt American trade and financial interests in Europe. D. They had promised the Soviet Union that no nation would set up spheres of influence.
Which statement best describes the first stage of contact between Indians and English colonists at Plymouth?
a. The Wampanoag immediately attacked the new arrivals, decimating the colonists´ ranks and slowing colonization for decades. b. Tensions quickly escalated into King Philip´s War, which resulted in the weakened local tribes conceding to relocation to reservations. c. The earliest relations between the thriving local Indian tribes around Plymouth Bay and English colonists were peaceful, setting the stage for many decades of cooperation and shared prosperity. d. Already allied with the French through the fur trade, the Wampanoag tried unsuccessfully to prevent any settlement by the English by selling their land to the French. e. Already severely weakened by disease, the Wampanoag initially sought peaceful accommodation with the settlers.