Richard Caton Woodville's painting War News from Mexico (1848) shows a central figure reading the latest headlines from the war front and, based on the men's expressions, elicits what type of response about the Mexican War from the audience
gathered at the "American Hotel"? A) indifference
B) astonishment
C) concern
D) both astonishment and concern
D
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The first congress under the Congress System met in ________
A. Aix-la-Chapelle B. Paris C. Versailles D. Brussels
Ottoman expansion
a. was achieved without any change in military organization or technology between 1400 and1700. b. relied heavily on the development of the Janissaries and new artillery weapons and tactics in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. c. absorbed Persia and Samarkand during the 1570s. d. seized Ukraine during the late 1600s, but it was lost again in the early 1700s. e. saw the use of slaves as conscript soldiers.
In the long run, the group that probably did the most to shape the modern West was the
a. small businessmen that provided products and services to miners, railroad men, and cowboys. b. miners. c. railroad men. d. cowboys. e. hydraulic engineers.
In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States
A. saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth. B. lacked adequate capital to expand the domestic market. C. suffered from an entrepreneurial deficit. D. faced a growing shortage of laborers. E. obtained the bulk of its raw materials from Central and South America.