Social reforms enacted by Germany in the late nineteenth century included all of the following EXCEPT
A) retirement pensions.
B) a minimum wage.
C) unemployment insurance.
D) medical insurance.
E) mandatory trade union membership.
Ans: E) mandatory trade union membership.
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A. between England and the American colonies. B. between Parliament and the monarchy. C. among the monarchy, Parliament, and the courts. D. between the commercial and landholding classes on both sides of the ocean. E. among the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the common people.
Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were known in the Great War as the:
a. Allied Powers b. League of Nations c. Central Powers d. Easter Powers
As indicated by the titles of two of his most influential books, the ethnologist Samuel G. Morton based his theories of black intellectual inferiority primarily on
a. extensive interviews with both free blacks and slaves. b. the measurement of skulls. c. a comparison of literacy rates among whites and blacks. d. the linguistic idiosyncrasies of southern blacks’ speech.
In the election of 1864, President Abraham Lincoln
A. faced a Democratic opponent who was a former Union general. B. was greatly aided by Robert E. Lee's surrender just before Election Day. C. won by a narrow margin in the electoral vote. D. proposed a truce in the Civil War. E. emphasized the success of the Republican Party in fighting the Civil War.