A key difference between the early and later Ming periods was the amount of
A) foreign involvement.
B) economic prosperity.
C) cultural achievement.
D) order and stability.
E) perpetuation of corrupt and weak practices.
A
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How did the political climates of Europe and North America change in response to industrialization?
A) They became more inclusive, granting women the right to vote. B) They limited the ability of certain groups of people to hold public office. C) They returned to the previous system of absolute monarchy. D) They increased the size of their governing bodies. E) They eliminated the obstacles that kept all men from military service.
Describe some of the literary and artistic criticisms of the rise of large organizations and mass culture of the period, such as in The Lonely Crowd and Organization Man.
What will be an ideal response?
Abraham Lincoln, unlike Jefferson Davis,
a. did not become emotionally involved in the war effort. b. always consulted with Congress before making major decisions. c. refused to use his emergency war powers to suspend basic constitutional rights. d. knew how to stay in touch with the common people.
President Cleveland's hostility to silver and silver-backed currency was driven primarily by his fear that
a. the growing drain of gold from the U.S. Treasury would force the United States off the gold standard. b. the unlimited supplies of silver within the United States would cause an extended depression. c. supporting free silver would be politically beneficial to Democrats such as William Jennings Bryan. d. soon gold and silver would both be replaced by strictly paper currency. e. the U.S. Treasury did not have sufficient capacity to store silver bullion at Fort Knox.