By 1900, the world's richest nation and greatest industrial power was
A. Great Britain.
B. Germany.
C. Russia.
D. the United States.
E. France.
Answer: D
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a. All states had granted women the right to vote in state elections by 1910. b. None of these attempts were successful. c. Attempts in the South and West were less successful than those in the Northeast. d. Although these attempts met with limited success, they laid the groundwork for the future by training a corpsof female leaders.
Which political leader told military leaders in 1933 that he wanted to remove the "cancer of democracy" from their society?
a. Benito Mussolini b. Mao Zedong c. Francisco Franco d. Adolf Hitler e. General Franco
President Reagan’s role in the Iran-Contra scandal was
a. never clearly identified. b. that of a man kept in the dark by his subordinates. c. to oversee the illegal trade from the start. d. never a question in the investigation. e. none of these choices.
How did former slaves’ ideas about their freedom conflict with the ideas of their northern allies?
A) Their northern allies wanted freed blacks to continue working on plantations for white planters, but African Americans did not want to return to plantation life. B) Freed blacks wanted to move to the North and begin new lives, but their northern allies felt they needed to stay in the South. C) Their northern allies felt that freed blacks should continue with their communal work system, but freed blacks wanted to take part in the piecework system. D) Freed blacks wanted to move to new land of their own, while their northern allies felt they should remain on the land where their families had lived for generations. E) Freed blacks wanted to continue with a family-based communal work system, but northerners wanted them to become individual wage earners.