Western historians customarily regard this as the crucial point in opening the trade routes to the East
a. the travels of Marco Polo
b. the voyages of Vasco de Gama
c. the discovery of the New World by Columbus
d. Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe
e. Prince Henry, the Navigator's establishment of a school for navigators
b
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Because the United States remained officially uninvolved, the Spanish Civil War did not affect the political debate over U.S. foreign policy
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
After 1915, Wilson followed a policy of __________.
A. preparing for war while working to stay at peace B. refusing any support for the preparedness movement C. embargoing all trade with Europe to avoid conflict D. ignoring events in Europe in hopes they would not affect the United States
New Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe faced which of the following different challenge(s) to adapting to life in America more than any of their northern and Western Europe “old immigrant” counterparts?
a. They brought a highly traditional Orthodox form of religion unfamiliar to most Americans. b. Many were illiterate even in their native tongues. c. Their village background was the antithesis of life in modern urban America. d. They were materially very poor. e. all of these choices.
During the nineteenth century, accelerating population growth was primarily associated with
A. higher fertility rates. B. declining death rates. C. drastically declining infant mortality. D. migrations.