In his famous poem "The White Man's Burden," Rudyard Kipling expressed the idea that whites
a. greatly suffered from the cruelty of African native tribes when they were captured.
b. were never really recompensed for the loss of their colonies after the end of colonialism.
c. were more susceptible to native African diseases and therefore experienced greater mortality.
d. carried the economic cost of infrastructure development in their former colonies.
e. had a moral responsibility to lift Africans from a state of lower societal development.
e
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Buffalo Bill Cody's "Wild West, Rocky Mountain, and Prairie Exhibition" was very successful
It gave citizens living in the eastern part of the country and in Europe the unrealistic, untrue, romanticized, spectacle of the West they wanted to see. All of the following statements provide reasons why any other type of show would NOT have been successful EXCEPT A) a realistic presentation of the West would need to have African-American, Mexican, and Latino cowboys. B) because cowboys and Indians rarely fought, those scenes would have had to be eliminated. C) Annie Oakley was not truly representative of Western women who had much more responsibility than sharp shooting. D) realism was what people came to the show to see.
The basis of Latin American wealth, social prestige, and power throughout the nineteenth century was
A. gold. B. sugar cane. C. cattle. D. land. E. heritage.
Which statement about Loyalists is accurate?
a. They were so small in number as to be virtually insignificant. b. They were all part of the upper classes. c. They were much more likely to be from cities in the North than from rural areas in the South. d. Many of them were more afraid of a lower-class mob than of the tyranny of the king.