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The message of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar” was for Am

The message of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar” was for American artists to A) challenge Americans’ faith in progress, technology, and human goodness. B) stress the role of reason and intellect in the pursuit of the truth. C) create distinctly American forms of art rooted in the facts of American life. D) investigate the […]

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Date: September 9th, 2020

In the 1940s, A) the federal government provided the South with the g

In the 1940s, A) the federal government provided the South with the greatest infusion of money and jobs in the region’s history. B) World War II provided the South with its most spectacular growth rate in its history. C) the federal government stationed most troop training in the South. D) the federal government spent more […]

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Date: September 9th, 2020

European nations did not offer much help to the Confederacy for all th

European nations did not offer much help to the Confederacy for all the following reasons EXCEPT A) Europeans were dependent on Northern grain exports. B) the Confederacy made no serious diplomatic efforts to seek aid. C) England had moral qualms about recognizing a slave power. D) England found alternative sources of cotton.   ANSWER B

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Date: September 9th, 2020

During the Civil War the Republican-dominated Congress passed legislat

During the Civil War the Republican-dominated Congress passed legislation to do all of the following EXCEPT A) lower tariff rates. B) provide a uniform national currency. C) grant public land to states that established agricultural colleges. D) make free homesteads available to individual settlers.   ANSWER A

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Date: September 9th, 2020