What are the possible explanations why representative government and democracy was so slow to develop in most Latin American countries? Were the reasons historical, cultural, environmental, economic, or of another nature?

What will be an ideal response?


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In East Germany,

a. Communist repression was nonexistent. b. huge influxes of people from the West occurred in the 1980s. c. the Christian Democrats achieved little electoral success in 1990. d. the fall of communism resulted in political reunification with West Germany in 1990. e. there was great fear and loathing in Germany at the prospect of German unification.

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The middle-class sentimental novel of the mid-1800s was chiefly concerned with

a. life lived in nature b. individualism c. mythology d. social reform e. social codes and social behavior

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Black labor unions benefited from __________ New Deal era law, including the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

a) the Wagner Act b) the Dawes Act c) the Murphy Act d) the Stamp Act

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Which of the following is true of the American Anti-Slavery Society?

A. The organization's leaders and its members were united in their belief in women's rights. B. The organization welcomed men and women of all races and all social classes. C. The organization based its call for an end to slavery exclusively on economic arguments. D. The organization called for a political solution that would bring a gradual end to slavery.

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