- The Panama Canal saved about how many days of travel between San Francisco and Jupiter, Florida?
- Read the quotation."In 1860, after a tenement fire took 20 lives, New York City's building laws were extensively revised and strengthened. At that time, the position of 'Superintendent of Buildings' was created within the Fire Department to enforce the new structural safety laws. An independent 'Buildings Department' in Manhattan was later founded in 1892."—City of New York Buildings Department Which of the following was a major factor contributing to the problem addressed in the quotation?
- Read the newspaper headline."The Daily News — March 14, 1904 Supreme Court Rules Northern Securities in Violation of Sherman Antitrust Act"Which statement best explains the significance of the newspaper headline?
- The work of who helped lead to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment?
- Read the passage."But in view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law."—Justice John Harlan, dissenting opinion, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)According to Justice Harlan in the passage, how does the legal system view discrimination according to the Constitution?
- Read the quote from Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience.""I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least.' . . . this government never of itself furthered any enterprise [project]. . . . It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. . . . I ask for . . . a better government."According to the quote, what is Thoreau's view of the U.S. government?
- The text on a music sheet reads, "Uncle Sam's Youngest Son: Citizen Know-Nothing." What topics might the lyrics discuss? (Two answers)
- What was women's contribution to the war effort?
- Which of the following phrases would a Republican congressman likely have used to describe President Johnson's Reconstruction plans?
- Why was the capture of Vicksburg so important for Union forces?
- Do Moral Laws (don't murder, don't steal, etc.) still apply to us today?
- How did the governor's order that only officers from Georgia could command Georgia's troops demonstrate a problem in the South?
- Look at the table of city growth between 1820 and 1860.City: I 1820 I 1840 I 1860 INew York 123,786 312,710 813,669Boston 40,298 93,383 565,529Philadelphia 62,738 93,665 177,848What was the MAIN reason for the data shown in the table?
- Jesus responds, declaring all things clean. This happens how many times?
- What does Peter do, having never eaten anything unclean?
- Read the following excerpt from a Confederate soldier's letter home to his family in 1862."Our regiment did not have many wounded nor killed but a good many taken prisoners. . . . Pa, I want you to have me a pair of boots made. Those shoes you had made for me ripped all to pieces. Our regiment used everything we had. I have no blanket nor any clothes but what I have got."What aspect of war does this soldier's letter exhibit?
- In the new covenant and in the Church, there was to be what with Jews and Gentiles?
- Which of the following was MOST helpful in advancing the Reconstruction reforms of Radical Republicans in Congress?
- Read the excerpt from President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address."[T]hat we here highly resolve [decide] that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."Summarize Lincoln's meaning in this last sentence of his Gettysburg Address.
- Read the statement."It almost seemed, sometimes, as if I had been away only a day or two and had just taken up the farm work where I had left off."—Union soldier, on returning home at the end of the Civil WarWhich of the following factors contributed to the experience described by this soldier?