Basketball was invented by YMCA instructor ____ in 1891 and quickly became popular
a. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett
b. James A. Bailey
c. Bill Cody
d. Daniel Burnham
e. James Naismith
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An examination of American voters in the late nineteenth century reveals
A. voter turnout for both presidential and nonpresidential elections was very high. B. poor whites in the south made up the largest demographic of American voters. C. there was greater voter interest in local elections than in national elections. D. voters did not strongly identify with either the Republican or Democratic Party. E. southern white males voted Republican as a matter of unquestioned faith.
The Balfour Declaration represented a British promise to support a homeland for the _________ people.
A. Polish B. Irish C. Jewish D. Turkish
The chief political difference between President Woodrow Wilson and the European parliamentary statesmen represented at the Paris peace table was that Wilson
a. lacked a comparable personal popularity among Europeans. b. did not appreciate or attempt to galvanize domestic political support among Americans for a postwar Paris peace settlement. c. respected the opinions of his domestic political adversaries and made a good-faith effort to include them in the Paris peace conference. d. refused to appreciate fully the need to break a reasonable political compromise between democratic idealism and great power of imperialism or colonialism for quickly coming to a peace agreement that all the Allies could support enthusiastically. e. was generally not popular with Americans at home; while, the European Allied leaders enjoyed overwhelming popularity with their own peoples.
Roughly how many blacks participated in the Great Migration during the First World War?
a. 500,000 b. 1,500,000 c. 3,000,000 d. 5,000,000