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[Done] Which of the following best describes the Harlem Renaissance? A. The rehabilitation of a decaying urban area B. An outpouring of Black artistic and literary creativity C. The beginning of the NAACP D. The most famous art show of the early twentieth century E. The establishment of the back-to-Africa movement

[Done] In the later phases of the Civil War, General __________, running for president against Lincoln, declared that he would not make emancipation a condition of reconstruction. A. Longstreet B. Sherman C. McClellan D. Meade

[Done] In the election of 1860, the _______ won the electoral votes of all the free states, except a fraction of the New Jersey votes. A. Whigs B. Republicans C. Constitutional Union Party D. Democrats

[Done] Which Italian Renaissance thinker believed that Italy needed strong, even ruthless, leaders and wrote *The Prince* to show how rulers can keep power? A. Cesare Borgia B. Erasmus C. Machiavelli D. Cosimo de' Medici

[Done] Which of the following statements about John D. Rockefeller is most accurate? A. He drilled the first oil well near Titusville, Pennsylvania. B. He invented the concept of vertical integration. C. He founded the Standard Oil Company when he was 24 years old. D. He considered competition to be the central ideal of capitalism.

[Done] In 1876, the first separate graduate school was established: A. at Harvard by Charles W. Eliot. B. by the Morrill Land Grant Act. C. at Radcliffe. D. at Johns Hopkins University.

[Done] Which of the following noted American authors wrote works that supported slavery? A. Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Harriet Beecher Stowe C. Henry David Thoreau D. Edgar Allan Poe

[Done] If you were a reform-minded person who, above all, loathed the social problems associated with alcohol, you would have been especially sympathetic to the: A. Evangelical efforts of Dwight L. Moody. B. Mugwumps. C. WCTU. D. Comstock Law.

[Done] Which statement explains why most emigrants from England came to America in the 1600s?

[Done] If you were one of the new immigrants who arrived in America in the 1880s, it's most likely that you would have been A. Irish and Protestant. B. German and Lutheran. C. Italian and Catholic. D. Swedish and Protestant.