Question 1
Christopher Columbus planned to find a more direct route to Asia by __________.
A) traveling around the southern tip of Africa
B) taking an overland trade route across the Middle East
C) sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean
D) finding a Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean
Question 2
When a civic reformer described New York's Tammany Hall as bearing the same relation to the penitentiary as the Sunday school does to church, he was mostly alluding to its __________.
A) nativist policies against immigrants
B) social services to the urban poor
C) political corruption and unethical ways of getting money
D) condemnation of the upper class
Question 3
Abolitionists created jigsaw puzzles such as this one mainly to __________.
A) educate Northern children about the evils of slavery
B) entertain laborers after their long work day
C) promote the African colonization movement
D) annoy Southern slave owners