What were the causes and results of the Great Peloponnesian War? What strategies did Athens and Sparta employ, and how was the war ultimately won?

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
1. Initial disputes between city-states allied with Athens and Sparta
2. Athens' defensive strategy under Pericles
3. Tumult in Athens following the death of Pericles
4. The Spartans' success in gaining Persian support and destroying the Athenian fleet

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a. cleaned up the meat packing plants. b. taxed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages. c. established free legal clinics for needy people. d. closed down Hull House. e. outlawed child labor and established the eight-hour day for women workers.

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The anaconda plan

a. was an effort to split the Confederacy in two. b. aimed at capturing the Confederate capital, Richmond. c. of the Confederacy almost succeeded at strangling the North. d. was popular in the public, but had no support in the Union army.

History

By the mid nineteenth century, Mexico lost all but which of the following to the United States?

a. Texas b. Arizona c. New Mexico d. California e. that area acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.

History

The first Constitution in the U.S. was the _________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

History