Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen was associated with which new technology employed to devastating effect in World War I?
a. poison gas
b. barbed wire
c. the machine gun
d. artillery
e. the airplane
e
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Why was it difficult for blacks to find jobs in the North after 1820?
A) There were very few jobs in the North after 1820 due to an economic depression. B) White immigration increased and employers preferred to hire whites. C) Racism began in the North only after 1820. D) Industry, especially the textiles industry, began to shift to the south.
Late nineteenth-century American cities experienced
A) frequent disease epidemics. B) polluted rivers. C) air pollution. D) All of the above.
In planning to deal with the defeated rebel states, President Andrew Johnson wanted to __________
A) bring the South back into the union quickly and painlessly B) see members of the planter elite humiliated C) grant extensive liberties to the newly freed people D) confine African Americans to reservations
Britain gave America generous terms in the Treaty of Paris because British leaders
a. realized that they had been beaten badly. b. wanted to help Spain as well. c. had changed from Whig to Tory. d. were trying to persuade America to abandon its alliance with France. e. feared continued war might lead to a loss of their Latin American colonies.