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Carly Lavery

Jul 24, 2024

Discuss World War II's impact on ethnic minorities in America. How did the experiences of Asian-Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican-Americans compare? How did their experiences differ on both the individual and group levels? Be sure to consider these experiences in the context of the war on all fronts when composing your response.

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Julie Urban

Jul 24, 2024

What did the Filipino Repatriation Act offer Filipinos?

A) a monthly payment to those willing to work for the government
B) citizenship
C) free housing
D) agricultural jobs
E) free transportation to those who wanted to get back to the Philippines

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Jenny Koshy

Jul 24, 2024

Which statement is true about the UAW sit-down strikes in Flint, Michigan?

A) The Democratic governor used force against the workers.
B) The workers were disunited.
C) The workers failed to get General Motors to negotiate.
D) The workers stayed inside the plants and kept the machines in working order.
E) The UAW were the first to use sit-down tactics.

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Beatriz Castro

Jul 24, 2024

In their defense of slavery, Southerners often demonstrated a belief in

A) egalitarianism among all whites.
B) maintaining the social order as God and nature prescribed it.
C) the eventual emergence of a truly integrated society.
D) education as a way to achieve the goal of equality among all people.

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Aaliya Sayed

Jul 24, 2024

Which statement about the Japanese-American internment is correct?

A) The press fought the policy of internment fiercely.
B) The Supreme Court tried to intervene.
C) Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were hardest hit by the policy.
D) Japan used it as proof that America was racist toward nonwhite people.
E) Once their loyalty was proven, they were free to leave.

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Maryann N Brito

Jul 24, 2024

The marriage of John Rolfe to Pocahontas

A) proved that the Indians and English would never be able to co-exist.
B) increased the conflict between the Virginian colonists and Indians.
C) led to a temporary peaceful co-existence.
D) increased the confidence of English investors in the Virginia Company.

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Katieanne Mckenzie

Jul 24, 2024

In contrast to the Chesapeake region, the population in New England

A) did not stress family-based activities.
B) focused on rice and tobacco.
C) grew rapidly because of healthier surroundings.
D) included even fewer women.
E) was not as deeply religious.

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Tyler Hazlett

Jul 24, 2024

Why did many women in Virginia not start a family until their mid-twenties?

A) Women mostly came to Virginia as indentured servants.
B) Women were too busy running the family business.
C) Women outnumbered men, so they had a difficult time finding a husband.
D) Women focused on doing work for the church.
E) Women and men were not together often due to men fighting in wars with Indians.

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Jennifer Heimann

Jul 24, 2024

Which of the following statements about the slave family is true?

A) Masters rarely broke up slave families.
B) Masters usually discouraged slaves from forming family units.
C) Most southern states had legalized slave marriages by 1860.
D) Children were often named after relatives of past generations as a way of retaining family history.

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Umeka Lovett

Jul 24, 2024

What significance was there in the Saturday Evening Post assigning the Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan to write the that accompanied Norman Rockwell's illustration for Freedom from Want?

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Seray Kurtis

Jul 24, 2024

According to the book An American Dilemma, written by Gunnar Myrdal, who should take the lead in ending racial discrimination?

A) blacks
B) the federal government
C) social organizations
D) socialists
E) journalists

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Christina Budzinski

Jul 24, 2024

Roger Williams argued that

A) church and state must be totally separated.
B) Puritans must stay in the Church of England and reform it.
C) religious wars were necessary to protect not only religion, but also freedom.
D) Puritans were on a divine mission to spread the true faith.
E) only John Winthrop was capable of explaining the word of God.

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Nadia Janik

Jul 24, 2024

Roosevelt's reelection in 1936 came as no surprise, because the entire business community and most of the national newspapers supported the Democrats.

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Emily Cheng

Jul 24, 2024

Which of the following statements is most consistent with the ideas preached by Charles G. Finney?

A) All humans are condemned to misery because of the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
B) All souls are predestined to either heaven or hell.
C) The United States, like Sodom and Gomorrah, will be destroyed by God because of the depravity of its citizens.
D) Because sin is avoidable, anyone can achieve salvation.

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Chandler Mcfarlane

Jul 24, 2024

Discuss the emergence of "the Cotton South," and explain the impact of the cotton boom on southern society.

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Cayla Gonzalez

Jul 24, 2024

Fearing a sit-down strike in 1937, how did U.S. Steel react?

A) The company hired private detectives to infiltrate the Steel Workers Organizing Committee.
B) The company hired a private police force to prevent a sit-down.
C) The company offered a slight raise, but refused to recognize the Steel Workers Organizing Committee.
D) The company agreed to recognize the Steel Workers Organizing Committee.
E) The company asked several states to send a militia.

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Lauren Rocha

Jul 24, 2024

The headright system led to fewer people from England coming to Virginia.

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celiene singh

Jul 24, 2024

Discuss the causes and consequences of the First and Second Barbary Wars.

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Venus Justice

Jul 24, 2024

Which of the following is true of James G. Birney?

A) Birney was an ardent supporter of the women's rights movement.
B) Birney called for the colonization of African Americans.
C) Birney rejected the belief that there was a political solution to ending slavery.
D) Birney was an immediatist who rejected moral suasion in favor of political action to achieve the goal of ending slavery.

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Blake Cannegieter

Jul 24, 2024

migrant workers

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