President James Buchanan´s inaction on southern secession was partly out of practical concerns, including
a. fear of southern military prowess.
b. the prospect that European powers would become involved.
c. the fact that America´s small standing army was scattered in the West, fighting Indians.
d. worry over his chances in the upcoming election.
e. the reality that the navy was already stretched thin in the Pacific defending American trade interests.
c
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World War II resulted in all of the following except
A) decolonization. B) long-term disarmament. C) a division of Europe. D) the cold war. E) the creation of Israel.
In the 1920s, artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance
A. drew heavily from their African heritage. B. both drew heavily from their African heritage and included writers Edna Ferber and Ezra Pound. C. sought to inspire civil disobedience to further racial justice. D. None of these answers is correct. E. included writers Edna Ferber and Ezra Pound.
What were the positive and negative demographic impacts of European contact with the New World?
What will be an ideal response?
Discuss the concept of the “Long Nineteenth Century,” by which is meant the period from 1789 to 1917. How is the Russian revolution a continuation of the previous revolutions? In what was is it new?
What will be an ideal response?