Author Question: The Free-Soil Party emerged during the Mexican-American War and was committed to __________. A) ... (Read 39 times)

WWatsford · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Civil rights reforms enacted by the Truman administration included __________.

A) the integration of all public facilities
B) requiring labor unions to admit African Americans
C) the desegregation of the armed forces
D) establishing the right to interracial marriages

Question 2

How does Jessie Willcox Smith's illustration from her 1909 book The Seven Ages of Childhood contradict what working-class children between the ages of 10 through 15 were experiencing in the early twentieth century?

A) Health rates for young children were essentially better than what is illustrated in this image.
B) Children like the five-year-old in the picture actually spent more time in school than at home.
C) Children had healthier dietary habits that went beyond eating bowls of porridge.
D) Over 1.75 million children were working in factories, home sweatshops, or farms at this time.

Question 3

The Free-Soil Party emerged during the Mexican-American War and was committed to __________.

A) blocking the admission of Texas to the Union
B) keeping slavery from spreading west
C) maintaining agrarian society
E) westward expansion