Which of the following accurately describes the newspaper industry in the 1790s?
a) The press took partisan positions.
b) The number of newspapers shrank.
c) Media coverage was balanced.
d) The government controlled the media.
a) The press took partisan positions.
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A. powerful nation in the upcoming conflict B. anchor of hope for the world C. great arsenal of democracy D. beacon of liberty
During the early nineteenth century, many married and widowed working-class women ____________.
A. worked at specialized tasks in the new factories B. acquired secretarial skills and worked in urban offices C. became clerks in the new urban department stores D. sold their domestic skills for wages by working as laundresses, seamstresses, and cooks
The city of Pagan, in Burma, was filled with elaborate buildings of what kind?
a. temples b. libraries c. mosques d. brothels e. market places
In Sophocles' Antigone, the heroine
A) struggles to obey divine rather than human law. B) obeys the laws of the community rather than Zeus. C) kills her brother and tries to bury him. D) marries Orestes. E) commits suicide rather than disobey divine law.