What was the significance of reporter H. L. Mencken's 1925 obituary for William Jennings Bryan, which flayed him as a "charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without shame or dignity"?
What will be an ideal response?
Mencken's attitude revealed the disdain urban people felt for country people and their values.
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What was the primary reason the Plains Indians were unable to resist white encroachment onto the Plains?
A) the absence of a warrior tradition in the tribes B) the assimilationist policy of the federal government C) the destruction of the buffalo herds D) the Indians' lack of a sense of "territory" to be defended
In what way did the outcome of the Spanish-American War fulfill Theodore Roosevelt's hopes for it?
a. It gave the United States influence and eventually dominance in Latin America and Asia. b. It made the United States a world power, equal to European imperialist countries. c. It gave the United States more foreign markets for its surplus of industrialized goods. d. It gave the United States influence in the Caribbean, it helped further annexation in Hawaii, and it was the impetus to creating a powerful navy. e. It freed Cuba, it gave Americans something to think about other than material gain, and it gave the army and navy practice.
One of the largest concerns amongst African American soldiers was equal pay for black troops. This was not granted by Congress until __________
a) June 1864 b) July 1863 c) April 1865 d) March 1862
The ________ Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment which made alcohol production and sale illegal, in 1933.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).