Recognizing the long historical association Americans had with a rural environment and the late nineteenth-century fact of rapid urbanization, explain why baseball became the national sport

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Teams were identified with cities and players were usually from those cities. Fans identified easily with both. Baseball also used the symbols of rural and preindustrial America: no clock, green field, fences, bullpen, etc. Baseball symbolically blended rural and urban environments and values in America.

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What made the last few months of the war especially difficult for the Nazi High Command?

a) Due to his drug use and stresses of the war, Hitler grew increasingly unstable, and his commands became erratic and unintelligible. b) Hitler was closed off in the Berlin bunker, which made it difficult for his staff to communicate with him. Consider This: Hitler’s physician gave him daily injections of everything from vitamins to synthetic heroin. See 13.5.2: The Final Collapse. c) Hitler sank into a deep depression after Mussolini’s death and refused to see anyone. Consider This: Hitler’s physician gave him daily injections of everything from vitamins to synthetic heroin. See 13.5.2: The Final Collapse. d) Hitler pretended that all was going well with the war, which confounded his staff, who did not know how to tell him the truth. Consider This: Hitler’s physician gave him daily injections of everything from vitamins to synthetic heroin. See 13.5.2: The Final Collapse.

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Which of these came to the fore in Latin American politics in the 1800s, often taking power by force?

A) gauchos B) Indians C) peninsulares D) caudillos

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What were three goals of President Grant's Indian Peace Policy?

A) Grant wanted to treat the Indian with dignity, end the corruption in the Indian Bureau, and to establish peace. B) He wanted to maintain the Indian Bureau, end the Plains Indian wars, and establish peace. C) Grant hoped to establish peace, end the war, and treat the Indian with dignity. D) He wanted to end the wars, establish peace, and dismantle the Indian Bureau.

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