During the mid-1890s, yellow journalism grew in America, due primarily to the:
a. use of Filipino reporters to cover the war in the Philippines
b. news coverage of Spanish officials who tried to bribe Cuban rebels
c. higher standards of journalism practiced by new journalism school graduates
d. circulation war between New York newspapers of Hearst and Pulitzer
D
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Protestant postmillennialists
a. were mostly Southern Baptists and Methodists. b. believed that the world would be destroyed by fire. c. believed that there would be a thousand years of perfect social order followed by the return of Christ. d. predicted the destruction of the world in 1837. e. hoped to unite all Protestant faiths into one.
What was the most significant cause of the increase in federal aid to education and the shift to greater emphasis on basic disciplines in the late 1950s?
a. influx of non-English-speaking Hispanics into the United States. b. alarm over the popularity of the nonconformist Beats on college campuses. c. "war on poverty" that was declared when it became apparent that high-school drop-outs were swelling the welfare rolls d. discovery that there were more private schools in the suburbs than public schools in the cities. e. launch of Sputnik, which gave Americans reason to fear that they were intellectually and technologically backward.
Who is the heroic fighter figure in the Iliad?
A. Achilles B. Hector C. Agamemnon D. Clytemnestra
The United States slipped from its position as the world's industrial leader mainly because of
A) shrinking markets abroad. B) failure to train workers adequately. C) failure to invest sufficiently in its productive capacity. D) overconcentration on electronic industries.