What struck Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America, most vividly about American society?
A) its ignorance
B) its rudeness
C) its equality
D) its sophistication
E) its variety
C
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McKinley won by carrying states in the
A) South, Great Plains, and Rocky Mountains. B) Midwest, Great Plains, and Pacific Coast. C) East, Midwest, and Pacific Coast. D) South, Midwest, and Great Plains.
Explain why President Polk "had little desire to go to war with Britain" over the Oregon question but was accused by some of having "deliberately provoked Mexico into war"
Why was Polk's action in the latter case more aggressive than in the former?
Some proponents of black cultural nationalism:
A) refused to break completely with the old-line civil rights movement. B) rejected the new "black studies" academic model as "too little, too late." C) pointedly rejected the tradition of black leftist politics, arguing that black politics should be rooted in distinctively African or African American values. D) demanded a complete break with mainstream American society.
Why had Hiroshima and Nagasaki not been firebombed?
A) Both were thought to be widely sympathetic to the Americans. B) Their architecture was likely to withstand the power of conventional bombs. C) President Truman wanted them preserved in case he decided to use the atomic bomb. D) They were far from the coast. E) They were of little military importance.