The weapon that the British used successfully against the French in the Hundred Years? War was the
A) cross bow
B) gunpowder
C) long bow
D) lance
E) musket
C
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Why did many Catholics abandon William Jennings Bryan and the Democratic Party in the 1896 election?
A. They were uncomfortable with Bryan's Protestant moral piety. B. They opposed Bryan's support of the gold standard. C. They perceived Bryan to hold negative views on the country's economic and social conditions. D. They disliked Bryan's support from the Populist Party.
Urban living in the United States in the late nineteenth century could be
a. anonymous and impersonal. b. a very different experience for many Americans from their rural roots. c. dangerous. d. all of the above
English mercantilists believed
A) to become wealthy, a nation needed to avoid government regulation of its economy. B) a favorable balance of trade would build a nation's power. C) there was an infinite amount of wealth in the world. D) national wealth and national power were essentially unrelated.
The Battle of Antietam was a major turning point because
A) the victory afforded President Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. B) it was the last time Confederate troops would enter Union territory. C) General Robert E. Lee was never again as aggressive for the rest of the campaign in Virginia. D) Confederate forces were forced to hurriedly withdraw into the Carolinas. E) the South had won a decisive battle in the North.