Influential writers left America and went to Europe to form intellectual expatriate communities because:
A) they were inspired by European art and culture.
B) they were not valued in their own country.
C) they found commercial America vulgar.
D) they were persecuted by politicians for influencing citizens.
E) they intended to learn the style of European writers.
C
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In the 1860 presidential election, the Republican party adopted an economic program that included all of the following features except
A) Federal aid for internal improvements B) A protective tariff. C) Free homesteads for settlers in the west. D) a national income tax. E) providing land to immigrants who were not yet citizens.
Yamaoka Michiko reported that right after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a friend told her "Miss Yamaoka, you look like a monster!" How devastating was the atomic bomb? Why did the United States drop the bomb? Did the U.S. have a choice?
What will be an ideal response?
Why didn’t William Paterson’s New Jersey Plan appeal to most delegates of the Philadelphia Convention?
A) It failed to provide a solution to the Convention’s most pressing issues. B) It proposed a two-house national legislature, giving the federal government too much power. C) It represented the wishes only of the large states, excluding small and weak states. D) It was strongly supported by Madison and his colleagues, so most delegates rejected it on that basis alone. E) It denied Congress power to tax or regulate trade, severely hampering its political and economic viability.
What was unique about thomas jefferson's inauguration?
a. it was the only time an american president's speech was a failure. b. it was the first held in the new capital, Washington, D.C. c. it was the first time a president spoke in front of people.