"Yellow journalism" or the "yellow press"
a. featured shocking and sensational stories designed to appeal to a mass audience.
b. was rejected by leading newspapermen such as Joseph Pulitzer.
c. focused American attention away from the Cuban rebellion at the end of the nineteenth century.
d. disappeared after 1900 because of the increased intelligence and sophistication of the reading public.
e. refers to the use of comic strips.
a
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A) progressive realists. B) abstract expressionists. C) Ashcan artists. D) socialist realists.
The Mauryan emperor Ashoka underwent a religious conversion to
a. Christianity b. Jainism c. Judaism d. Shintoism e. Buddhism
The most drastic reform introduced into Turkey after World War I was
A) western dress. B) new coinage. C) setting aside Islamic law for secular law. D) a modern military. E) the belief that a period of autocratic rule was necessary to raise Turkey to an educational level necessary for self-government.
Republicans characterized Frémont's performance in 1856 as "victorious defeat" because:
A) he carried most of the states of the North. B) he won a majority of the popular, but not the electoral, vote. C) he built the Republican Party into a national party. D) the Democrats fractured as a result of his candidacy.