Why did the Zimmerman telegram outrage Americans?
A) It revealed German plans to sabotage American industry.
B) It included German plans for sinking the Lusitania.
C) It offered of a German alliance to Mexico and the promise of a return of lands Mexico lost to the United States.
D) It contained German plans to assassinate key British, American, and French political leaders.
C
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All of the following problems plagued the effort to establish a permanent colony of Roanoke in the late 1580s by Walter Raleigh and his English colonists EXCEPT
A) colonists settled on land in and near areas that were claimed and populated by hostile Algonquian Indians. B) the failure of resupply ships to return to Roanoke in 1588 because of an impending threatened naval attack of Spain against England. C) a catastrophic drought between 1587 and 1589 creating food shortages and increased tensions with local Indians. D) despite ample land incentives for families to settle in Roanoke, it became nearly exclusively a colony of men.
Which of the following is true of the presidential election of 1964?
A. The election marked the first time since the Civil War that a Democratic presidential candidate did not carry the states of the Deep South. B. The election temporarily turned relations between the United States and the Soviet Union into a minor issue in American politics. C. The election gave Johnson a landslide victory, but it also gave him the most conservative Congress in history. D. The election featured the most peaceful party conventions in twenty-five years.
Railroads commonly encouraged large shippers to use their lines by
A) giving them rebates. B) selling them stock below the market price. C) providing them private cars. D) refusing to carry goods except under specific contract.
Which of the following was not a characteristic of Mongol rule in China?
a. restoration of order b. forced labor c. relative religious tolerance d. poor imperial administration