To find effective high-level commanders, the Union
a. took only top graduates of West Point.
b. drew on its reserve officer training program.
c. relied on the advice of foreign experts.
d. did not let politics enter the decision-making process.
e. used trial and error.
e
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Which of the following best describes the tactics of the Empress Dowager Cixi?
A) Retained her own position with in the Qing Dynasty above all else. B) Played her son off against her nephew to see which was more capable of ruling. C) Implemented the 100 Days of Reform, designed to better organize the government. D) Strengthened China so the country would be able to oust outsiders. E) Cleared Christian missionaries out of the country's coastal regions.
Khubilai Khan employed foreigners like Marco Polo in administrative posts primarily
A. because of their cosmopolitan nature. B. as a personal favor to Pope Innocent IV. C. as a form of punishment against foreign governments. D. because the khan did not entirely trust his Chinese subjects. E. as an indirect means of holding them hostage.
The South's traditional honor culture that stressed the importance of personal reputation relied on
A. duels. B. nose-pulling. C. private guilt. D. public shame.
Several significant abolitionists including John Brown __________ to more actively take part in work to free slaves or abolish slavery
A) joined radical religious movements B) moved to border regions or contested territories such as Kansas C) blended in among the southern elite D) offered themselves as workers on southern plantations themselves