Why did birthrates decline in western Europe in the late nineteenth century?
a. Birth control and abortion were widely available.
b. Child mortality rates decreased.
c. Industrialization caused more women to work.
d. People married at a later age.
e. None of these
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The so-called "Zimmermann telegram"
A. included a German offer to help Mexico take back the some of the American Southwest. B. revealed that Germans were attempting to foment a race riot in the American South. C. was intercepted by agents working for the United States. D. revealed plans by Germany to expand the use of its submarine fleet. E. helped weaken public support in the United States for war.
President Franklin Roosevelt's decision in 1940 to give fifty American destroyers to England
A. circumvented the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts. B. was in response to requests by the U.S. ambassador to London. C. both circumvented the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts and was in response to requests by the U.S. ambassador to London. D. was cancelled by Congress. E. None of these answers is correct.
Beginning in the late 1790s, which of the following events helped to shape African Americans' response to slavery?
A) The rise of a widespread abolitionist movement in Virginia B) The bloody slave revolt on Saint Domingue and the abortive slave insurrection in Virginia C) The formation of political parties D) Congress's attempts to abolish slavery E) All of these choices
The description of the Spaniards in Bartolomé de las Casas’s The Devastation of the Indies and the codices both draw attention to the Spaniards’ __________
A) divinity B) humanity C) greed D) laziness