The mayor of New York City who organized information and political influence to convince the state legislature to construct the Erie Canal was
A) DeWitt Clinton.
B) Thurlow Weed.
C) Robert Morris.
D) Martin Van Buren.
A
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a. developed a canon of writings that systemized religious belief. b. largely disappeared as the difficulties of daily life left no time for devotion to the gods. c. consisted of a mixture of beliefs and cults inherited from the Mycenaeans and older Indo-European traditions imported from Asia Minor. d. was directed by prophets who would become a powerful priestly class in classical Greece. e. was already challenged by a growing rational and secular spirit.
Sayyid Ahmad Khan founded the college Aligarh to mix Islam with what?
a. Hindu scientific thought b. Western learning c. Vedanta d. Buddhism e. Theosophy
The Balfour Declaration
a. ended Ottoman rule in Egypt. b. gave Britain a mandate over Jordan and Iraq. c. promised the Jews a homeland in Palestine. d. authorized the French takeover of Lebanon. e. exiled the Arabic population from Jerusalem.
During the Progressive Era:
a) growing numbers of native-born white women worked as domestics. b) growing numbers of native-born white women worked in offices. c) the number of married women working declined. d) most eastern European immigrant women worked as telephone operators.