Estrella Torres

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One Progressive reform was the direct primary. In a direct primary, who chooses the candidates for each political party?Response
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Which description fits the terms primary, initiative, and referendum?Responses Jim Crow laws designed by southern whites to keep
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Which changes took place in the United States in the late 1800s?Choose all answers that are correct. Responses Factories were
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Which phrase tells how the Hawaiian culture was characterized for centuries before Europeans and Americans came to the Hawaiian
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Which phrases describe ways the United States acquired outlying areas?Choose all answers that are correct. Responses purchasing
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What can people living in the United States' outlying areas usually do?Choose all answers that are correct. Responses elect
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Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story.Which quotation from the story "Hamadi" by Naomi Shahib
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Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story.What is the effect of the author's choice to use the
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Which statement best describes the type of conflict Malik overcomes?Responses Malik vs. technology: He must learn how to use
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Part ARead paragraph 6. Which change in Tessa demonstrates a theme of this narrative? Responses Tessa would like to hear
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How do Tessa and Varick interact in the scene in paragraph 4?Responses Varick gives Tessa advice, which she rejects because it
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What is the function of the noun phrase "one of Mark Twain’s most famous books" in this sentence?The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Which underlined phrase is an adjective phrase?Responses The kitten on our doorstep was meowing loudly, as if it were hungry.
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Which sentence combines these two sentences through the use of an appositive?Dorothy is a colonel in the U.S. Army. Dorothy has
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Which description best explains how the complicating incident functions in this passage?Responses It introduces the passage's
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excerpt from "A Relay Race to Remember"As the relay teams collected their swim caps and goggles and began to head to the
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What is the meaning of the word emphasized as it is used in this sentence from paragraph 1?He recognized that his stroke was
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Everyone on the team noticed it. Malik had been gradually limping more and more as the meet progressed. He was 18 years old and
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Which word best characterizes Ezra?Responses Careful Careful, Kindhearted Kindhearted, Mean Mean, Impatient
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excerpt from "A Huge Mistake"The problem was that I couldn’t wait the decades it would take until I earned enough for a car as
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A Huge MistakeI finally had it! I had the golden ticket in my hand! Okay, it wasn’t really golden—it was actually blue, and
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Part AThis story is written from Justine’s perspective, and the reader sees what is important to her. How do Justine’s
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Which statement best describes the effect of this story's literary point of view?Responses The third-person omniscient point of
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Which statement is the most accurate about United States' involvement in World War I?Responses The United States stayed out of
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In a speech before Congress, Woodrow Wilson announced that the United States was joining the Allies in Europe in order to make
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What prompted the United States to join the fighting in World War I?Responses the assassination of an archduke the assassination
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The signers of the peace treaty supported the creation of the League of Nations.What happened that prevented the United States
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Which statement describes a result of the Spanish-American War?Responses Spain retained all of its possessions and regained its
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Which statement describes a major reason that America entered World War Ion the Allied side?Responses President Wilson thought a
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Which statement describes an accomplishment of President Theodore Roosevelt?Responses He signed an agreement with John D.
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Who ran as a candidate of the Bull Moose Party in 1912 against Republican William Howard Taft and Democrat Woodrow Wilson?
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What were Americans afraid of during the Red Scare?
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What were Americans afraid of during the Red Scare?Responses a measles epidemic a measles epidemic a Russian attack a Russian
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How did Russia become a communist country?Responses During the World War I, Germany took control of Russia and made it a
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Is this statement true or false?Attorney General Palmer violated Constitutional rights by letting his agents put 5,000 people in
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Is this statement true or false?If Congress passed a law making it a crime to write letters criticizing the government, it would
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Is this paragraph true or false?President Harding appointed unqualified friends to government offices and failed to exercise his
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Is this statement true or false?Most Americans at the time thought Coolidge was a splendid president. Responses
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What transformation takes the graph of function f to the graph of function g?Responses a horizontal compression by a factor of
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Which statements describe the Bonus March?Choose all answer that are correct? Responses was made up of World War I veterans and
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hich action did President Herbert Hoover believe the government should take?Responses not provide seven-course dinners in the
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Which foreign dictator did this American think had good ideas?Responses Joseph Stalin—Charles Lindbergh Joseph
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Who pioneered animated movies with his short feature, Steamboat Willie, in 1928?Responses
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Which phrase describes a method used to gain publicity for the 19th Amendment?Responses burning down polling stations to protest
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Which attorney general under President Wilson led a witch-hunt to round up communists in the 1920s?
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Which quotation accurately describes Calvin Coolidge's philosophy against active government?Responses "I pledge you, I pledge
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Which term refers to "Jazz Age" women of the 1920s?
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Which statements tell the results of the migration of blacks from the rural South to urban centers in the North?Choose all
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Which president's administration was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal?
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Which quotation sums up Herbert Hoover's beliefs about government's role?Responses "...the very soundness of our democratic
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Which statement about the black migration of the 1920s is true?Responses Blacks who moved to northern cities were welcomed into
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Which leader used the 1917 revolution against the tsar to create a communist state in Russia?
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Which famous lawyer defended John Scopes, who was arrested for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school?Responses
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Which statements describe a cultural change that occurred in the 1920s?Choose all answers that are correct. Responses Black
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Which term refers to a period of time when stocks are generally losing value?Responses
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Adolf Hitler was the dictator of which country?
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Which would a totalitarian government forbid?Responses political groups in which all members show full support for the ruling
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Which process did the Founding Fathers implement to allow changes to be made to the U.S. Constitution?Responses referendum
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Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution was overturned by a later amendment?
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whats the 18th amendment
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Which statement describes a controversial step taken by President Wilson's Attorney General Mitchell Palmer in 1920?Responses He
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Select "Rational" or "Irrational" to classify each number.Rational Irrational 0.144 Rational – 0.144 Irrational – 0.144
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Which numbers are irrational numbers?Select each correct answer. Responses 1049−−√ square root of fraction numerator 10
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Which was a long-term effect of the building of the transcontinental railroad?Responses ensuring property rights for Native
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Which statement about conflict between whites and Native Americans is false?Responses After years of war, white settlers forced
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Which tactics were used to keep blacks from exercising their civil rights in the post-Civil War South?Choose all answers that
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Which statement about immigration to the United States between 1860 and 1900 is true?Responses The U.S. government encouraged
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Which were reasons that many Americans wanted to restrict immigration?Choose all answers that are correct. Responses They feared
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Which statement describes a goal of the Populists in the late 1800s?Responses They pushed for lower tariffs on imported
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Which statement best describes a monopoly?Responses Consumers are free to decide which company's product is better. Consumers
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Which statement describes the American public's reaction to early labor unions?Responses The public distrusted unions because
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Which best describes what a muckraker would likely do?Responses clean barns on a dairy farm clean barns on a dairy farm work for
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Which statement describes a problem faced by immigrants in the late 1800s?Responses They could not find activities to fill their
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Which statement describes a result of the Harlem Renaissance?Responses More people became aware of literary and artistic
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Which president served two non-consecutive terms during the late 1800s?
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Warren Harding accomplished a lot.What did he fail to do during his presidency? Responses appoint many black men to public
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Which statement about the black migration of the 1920s is false?Responses Blacks who moved to northern cities still lived in
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Which was a reason that Wilson's dream of a "peace without victory" failed at the end of World War I?Responses France and
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Which of these people benefited from the prosperity of the late 1800s?Choose all answers that are correct. Responses store owner
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Which statement about the process to amend the U.S. Constitution is accurate?Responses A president can veto a constitutional
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Which statement describing Teddy Roosevelt's life is false?Responses He grew up in a poor immigrant family. He grew up in a poor
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The direct election of U.S. senators was a goal of which political movement?Responses Progressives Progressives Whigs Whigs
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Which territories did the United States acquire as a result of the Spanish-American War?Responses Midway Island, Taiwan, and New
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Which were causes of the Spanish-American War?Choose all answers that are correct. Responses Many Americans believed the Spanish
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Which statement about labor unions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is false?Responses The American public,
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Which statement describing the era of Prohibition in the United States is false?Responses Gangsters who sold alcohol during
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Which statement inaccurately describes the League of Nations?Responses Germany refused to join the League of Nations because it
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Which was a result of the "red scare" created by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer in response to the communist takeover in
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hich black civil rights leader believed a democracy must guarantee equal treatment for all people?Responses
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Which black civil rights leader believed a democracy must guarantee equal treatment for all people?Responses Mother Jones Mother
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Which civil rights leader was born a slave and became a brilliant speaker and national hero who was loved by both races?Response
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Which statement about John D. Rockefeller and J. P Morgan is accurate?Responses They were two of the richest, most powerful men
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Which statement about Andrew Carnegie is correct?Responses He was a poor immigrant from Scotland who made a fortune in the steel
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Which Danish immigrant photographed immigrant life to make people aware of the problems immigrants faced?Responses
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John Muir is closely identified with which social reform movement of the late 1800s?
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John Muir is closely identified with which social reform movement of the late 1800s?Responses exposing political corruption
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Which organization was led by William "Boss" Tweed during the late 1800s?
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Which social crisis facing America in the late 1800s did the temperance movement address?Responses the discrimination facing
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Which Nez Perce leader fought the U.S. Army rather than be forced to move his people to a reservation?
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Which statement accurately describes Thomas Nast?Responses He campaigned tirelessly for women's right to vote. He campaigned
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