The Russian presence in Alaska was an extension of __________.
A. the Russian conquest of Korea
B. Russian efforts to control Pacific fisheries
C. the Russian conquest of Siberia
D. Russian competition with Japan
Answer: C
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The example of __________ is similar to the Salem witchcraft hysteria because the hunt for guilty parties led to the ruin of innocent lives.
a. recent persecutions of people of Middle Eastern descent suspected of being terrorists b. nineteenth-century accusations by Catholics against Protestant leaders for plotting against American values c. the 1940s hunt for neo-Nazis involved in un-American activities d. the arrest of French citizens during World War I for imagined crimes against the state
During his study at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Muir
a) was a loner who had few friends or associates. b) often suffered disciplinary action for missing classes or gazing blankly out the classroom window. c) considered any visits to his room to be "an invasion of his space." d) learned that religion, science, and literature would be useless in his study of the wilderness. e) heard many conservationist arguments that strengthened his resolve that the wilderness must be preserved.
The group known as the Young Turks, which ousted Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1909, was composed of
A) military officers. B) Westernized intellectuals. C) Muslim clerics. D) wealthy industrialists. E) landed aristocrats.
President Wilson’s insistence on the right to __________ clashed with both British and German objectives
A) trade with both sides B) speak out against the war C) remain out of the fighting D) sink ships from both sides