How did President Cleveland justify his use of federal troops to break the railroad workers' strike?
A) The strike interfered with the delivery of U.S. mail.
B) Anarchists and socialists were leading the strike.
C) National security demanded the railroads be kept operating.
D) The strike threatened the economic well-being of the country.
A
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_______________ After the assassination of this man's reform-minded father by revolutionaries, he determined to strengthen "autocracy, orthodoxy, and nationality" in Russia.
a) Soviet b) Duma c) Pogrom d) Rasputin e) Karl Marx f) Nicholas II g) Bolsheviks h) Mensheviks i) V.I. Lenin j) Alexander III k) Bloody Sunday l) World War II m) Trans-Siberian Railway n) Provisional Government o) March Revolution (1917) p) New Economic Policy (NEP)
How did expansion affect men like John Jacob Astor?
a. As free African Americans, men like Astor could settle in the West and make a life for themselves. b. As displaced Native Americans, men like Astor could relocate in the newly acquired land of the West or Florida, making a new life for themselves. c. Expansion gave entrepreneurs like Astor the opportunity to create prosperous immigrant neighborhoods like Astoria, New York. d. Expansion gave entrepreneurs like Astor the opportunity to create prosperous companies in the West. e. Expansion gave immigrants like Astor the opportunity to work hard in an industrial mill and one day save enough money to start their own business.
Sayyid Ahmad Khan is best known for
a. being the spiritual father of Pakistan. b. creating a Muslim college at Aligarh. c. leading a revival of Hindu culture and learning. d. supporting violent resistance to British rule in India.
Which one of the following comments best summarizes the impact of the Scientific Revolution on Western Civilization?
A) It created a new "heaven" but had little impact on conceptions of the earth. B) It slightly modified the medieval, Aristotelian-Ptolemaic worldview. C) It was a major turning point that represented cooperation in the pursuit of new knowledge. D) It forcefully and deliberately attacked the moral foundation of a Christian civilization. E) It created a new "earth" but had little impact on conceptions of the universe.