Question 1
In 1955 the Communist Party ordered that all agricultural land be collectivized
a. because by then the five year-plan had provided a surplus of tractors and reapers.
b. to increase food production and thus release labor and capital for industrialization.
c. in order to reduce urban poverty and crime.
d. and the lands be given to independent peasant farmers.
e. as promised in Mao's Little Red Book.
Question 2
Lincoln's predecessor James Buchanan
a. threatened Southerners with military action if they seceded.
b. refused to hand over the presidency to Republican Abraham Lincoln.
c. did nothing when a Charleston Harbor battery fired on a federal supply ship as it tried to approach Fort Sumter.
d. had sympathy for the plight of Southern slaves.