How did the emergence of Germany as a new nation-state affect the European political scene after 1870?
a. Germany provided stability and leadership
b. Germany maintained the balance of power
c. Germany's arrival disrupted the established order
d. Germany quickly became the lone superpower
Answer: c. Germany's arrival disrupted the established order
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a) 1920s b) 1930s c) 1940s d) 1950s
The most obvious indicator of the supremacy of democracy in the United States was the __________
a. high percentages of people who voted b. widespread use of the "spoils system" c. absence of any kind of social or economic classes d. development of universal manhood suffrage e. increase in the number of appointed officials
When it came to the Revolution, it could be said that the American colonists
a. were perpetually hostile to authority. b. believed that revolution was a necessary step in human progress. c. based their revolt on working class hostility to British aristocracy. d. revolted against the cultural domination of the mother country. e. were reluctant revolutionaries.
In the 1980s, for the first time in the twentieth century
a. income gaps widened between the richest and the poorest Americans. b. middle-class incomes rose. c. the poor made economic gains. d. the economy was uniformly healthy. e. the majority of Americans were middle class.