Rifles designed by the German firms of Krupp and _________ pioneered the bolt-action, magazine, and clip-fed rifles that remained the staple of infantry weapons through two world wars.
a. Sig Sauer.
b. Glock.
c. Mauser.
d. Maxim.
c. Mauser.
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How did the arrival of coffee, tea, and chocolate change European behavior?
a) By the late-1600s, coffee, tea, and chocolate shops were replacing taverns as important social centers. b) Chocolate, tea, and coffee were so expensive that access to them was highly regulated, forcing the average European to wait in long lines to buy them. Consider This: Where were people most likely to buy these items? See 4.3.1: New Delights. c) By the mid-1600s, Europeans were encouraged to drink coffee, tea, or hot chocolate as alternatives to smoking tobacco. Consider This: Where were people most likely to buy these items? See 4.3.1: New Delights. d) The arrival of coffee, tea, and chocolate, while welcome, made no change in European behavior. Consider This: Where were people most likely to buy these items? See 4.3.1: New Delights.
John Scopes was tried for __________
A) sending package bombs through the mail during the Red Scare B) evading the draft during World War I C) shouting "fire" in a crowded theater D) teaching the theory of evolution in a Tennessee high school E) abducting and murdering the infant son of Charles Lindbergh
The southern demand that slavery be allowed to expand into the territories seems to have been motivated by the a. expectation that slavery would be even more profitable in the West than in the South. b. fear that free territories would tip the balance of power in the Senate against the South and slaveholdingstates
c. belief that expansion was necessary to allow the profitable sale of surplus southern slaves. d. assumption of southern politicians that they should put forward extreme positions as a tactic in politicalbargaining with the North.
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed to be ratified by the needed 38 states largely because
a. the Catholic Church opposed it. b. many Americans realized that its goals had already been achieved without amending the Constitution. c. an antifeminist backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly stirred sufficient opposition to stop it. d. many suspected that it would require such things as rigid quotas and unisex bathrooms. e. many Americans believed that equal gender treatment was a matter of changing attitudes, not creating laws.