Alaska was called "Seward's Folly" because of his abortive attempt to sell the territory to the Russian czar as a method of financing the cost of maintaining troops in the South during Reconstruction.
a. true
b. false
b. false
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Alexander Hamilton's funding and assumption programs suggest that he believed that humans were fundamentally motivated by
A) a humanitarian concern for the welfare of others. B) a keen sense of justice and fair play. C) economic self-interest. D) religious convictions.
Cultural imperialism has spread Western tastes and styles around the globe by a deliberate policy or by economic superiority and
a. Western techniques to sell foreign goods. b. global marketing. c. political control and influence. d. fears of military intervention. e. subliminal messages broadcast at very low frequencies.
James Forten was __________
A) the survivor of a harrowing naval battle and captured by the British B) a victim of a Native American attack on a Georgia plantation C) a servant of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia D) a spy for the British in Boston
In the years after World War I, the idea of progress
A) gave a sense of hope in the midst of human suffering. B) remained the foundation of Asian thought. C) became even more popular among liberal Christian thinkers. D) was bolstered by the growing popularity of Confucian thought. E) was roundly attacked.