Why did the United States choose to side with Britain over Germany in World War I?
a. The United States hosted millions of British immigrants and had a strong British lobby.
b. Britain was America's biggest creditor and trading partner.
c. Germany was a rival that Americans viewed with traditional distaste and had no particular reason to help.
d. Americans tended to see Britain as the greater threat and wanted to keep it as an ally rather than an enemy.
b
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Which of the following statements about upward mobility in the late nineteenth century is the most accurate?
A) Andrew Carnegie's rise from poverty to colossal wealth was typical of the opportunities open to immigrants in America. B) Few industrial leaders came from the privileged classes because they were too soft to make it in the world of competitive capitalism. C) Skilled workers had few opportunities to rise to the top in small companies. D) Immigrants who got ahead in the late nineteenth century were more likely to go from rags to respectability than from rags to riches. E) Middle class Americans tended to slide downward more often than rise upward in socio-economic rank.
To Quakers, liberty was:
a. limited to the spiritually inclined. b. strictly defined. c. a universal entitlement. d. extended to women but not to blacks.
After the death of Theodoric, the Ostrogothic kingdom
A) prospered under very able rulers. B) was defeated by the Byzantines, reducing Rome as a center of Mediterranean culture. C) allied itself with the Vandals against the Visigoths. D) dominated Mediterranean trade for the next fifty years. E) converted the Germans to orthodox Christianity.
Hellenistic art displayed all except
A) lively domestic scenes. B) emphasis on extreme emotion. C) always covered the forms of women. D) great senses of movement E) emphasis on tenderness in domestic life.