By the early 1800s, what had some Japanese officials and scholars concluded?
A) Westerners must be kept out of their country at all costs.
B) They needed more knowledge about Western European science and medicine.
C) Japanese poetry was far superior to most European verse.
D) "Dutch medicine" was the only worthwhile kind.
E) They had fallen behind every European country except Russia.
B
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A) worked in factories. B) were engaged in agricultural pursuits. C) held white-collar jobs. D) faced a decline in their living standards.
The Central Pacific Railroad started the first transcontinental line in
A) ?Los Angeles, California. B) ?Las Vegas, Nevada. C) ?Sacramento, California. D) ?Carson City, Nevada. E) ?None of these are correct.
President Truman's loyalty program
a. won the support of Joseph McCarthy. b. proved that the domestic communist conspiracy was a serious threat to U.S. security. c. was criticized by both the political far left and the far right. d. resulted in a lower divorce rate in the U.S. e. revived support for labor unions.
The British invoked "tradition" in India to
a. enhance and benefit their supporters in British-ruled India. b. endow religious leaders with power to maintain control over the population. c. enforce the image of Britain's monarchy and wealth. d. provide a justification to keep control over the population in the absence of a regular, established colonial policy. e. All of these