What innovation does the textbook identify as the first to advance overland transportation and contribute to the market revolution?

A) the steamboat
B) the canal
C) the railroad
D) the telegraph
E) the "turnpike," or toll roads

Lincoln raised the money to pay for the war mostly through an income tax.

Which of the following may be considered the underlying reason for the Watts race riot of 1965?

A) African Americans resented the fact that they were drafted disproportionately to whites to fight in Vietnam.
B) African Americans were frustrated and angry over their joblessness and lack of opportunity.
C) Radical left-wing instigators incited African Americans to engage in violence.
D) Whites were angry over the expansion of the African-American neighborhood of Watts into surrounding white neighborhoods.

What leader transformed the Soviet Union into a totalitarian communist state in the 1920s and 1930s?

A) Joseph Stalin
B) Leon Trotsky
C) Nikita Khrushchev
D) Gregory Zinoviev
E) Nikolai Bukarin