In 1914, the German Schlieffen Plan
A) appeared successful at first but failed after the Battle of the Marne.
B) would have succeeded without American intervention in the war.
C) showed that the war would be over by Christmas.
D) showed that modern war could be fought with few casualties.
E) was never executed out of fear of provoking Britain to declare war.
Answer: A
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a. establish universal white male suffrage b. institute state income taxes c. revise labor laws d. lower property requirements for voting
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration
a. combined work relief jobs with conservation. b. furnished funds to local and state governments. c. created a regulatory board for settling labor disputes. d. was one of FDR's ideas that was rejected by Congress.
The inflation of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
A) brought an abrupt halt to commercial expansion. B) was the result of too little money in circulation. C) caused a decline in the standard of living for wage earners and those on fixed incomes. D) was caused largely by a shrinking labor force. E) All of these are correct.
Noah Webster's dictionary
a. had little impact until the twentieth century. b. helped to standardize the American language. c. was used to educate nineteenth-century slaves. d. came to the United States from Britain in the 1800s. e. gave legitimacy to American slang.