Why did 20,000 blacks settle in places like Kansas in the 1870s?
A) to escape the "Jim Crow" South
B) to take part in a new gold rush
C) the government provided free land
D) to take up factory labor
A
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A) William Howard Taft B) Calvin Coolidge C) Herbert Hoover D) Warren G. Harding
What most fervently inspired many abolitionists to take action against slavery?
a. Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831 b. the founding of the Republican party c. Frederick Douglass's speeches d. the Second Great Awakening e. the founding of Liberia in 1822
What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay with regard to China?
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Which of the following is an accurate statement about the nature of "work" in the United States before the nineteenth century?
A) Nearly everyone worked in a household setting. B) Because the "service sector" of the economy had not yet developed, nearly everyone worked in factories. C) Most unmarried daughters worked in department stores in order to supplement family income. D) Unmarried males tended to be unemployed and viewed with suspicion. E) Most workers exchanged their work for food and housing.