The battle at Antietam Creek was significant for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that it
A. proved McClellan could mastermind a victory after all.
B. repulsed a Confederate invasion of the North.
C. provided an occasion for Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.
D. was the bloodiest single-day battle in the history of American warfare.
Answer: A
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A) consider military service as a way to stave off unemployment. B) learn to live with less energy, jobs and possibilities. C) watch the value of the dollar skyrocket. D) pay higher taxes to lower the federal deficit. E) pay nearly $2 for a gallon of gas.
The Panic of 1873
A. saw President Grant favor putting more paper currency into circulation. B. began after the Southern crop-lien system collapsed. C. saw Republicans call on Grant to go off the gold standard. D. was the nation's worst economic depression to that time. E. began after revelations of corruption in the Grant administration.
In 1900, foreign embassies in China were besieged by
A. the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists. B. a Japanese army invasion. C. Chinese military forces as part of the Opium War. D. the Hundred Days reformers. E. the Taiping rebellion.
In 1988, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signaled his desire to change past policies by
A. ordering a military coup against communist hard-liners within his government. B. giving the republics within the Soviet Union their independence. C. agreeing to a significant nuclear arms reduction treaty. D. renouncing his own communism. E. releasing political prisoner Nelson Mandela after 27 years.