What did Irene do to try and disqualify her son from ruling?
a. She kept him under house arrest his whole life.
b. She declared his divorce from Maria invalid.
c. She rallied the military to her side by marrying a powerful general.
d. She blinded him.
e. She had him kidnapped and sent to a monastery.
d
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By the 1890s, a young British-trained lawyer named Mohandas K. Gandhi was actively campaigning for the rights of Indians in British-controlled ________.
a. CeylonC. b. Uganda. c. Trinidad. d. South Africa.
Sultan Abdül Hamid II
A. poured money into a ship-building race with the British. B. carefully nurtured the development of the Turkish parliament. C. was forcibly placed in power by the Young Turk Party. D. won the last great Ottoman Turkish military victory by recapturing Greece. E. ruled despotically but also followed Tanzimat principles.
The war promoted Prohibition for all of the following reasons except
a. many breweries were run by German Americans. b. moralistic progressives believed that young soldiers needed protection from vice. c. the grain normally used to produce liquor was required for food. d. alcohol normally used in beer, wine, and liquor was needed as fuel for tanks. e. it would be good for American morals.
What did American Sugar Refining, the Northern Securities Company, and the National Biscuit Company share in common?
a) They all organized their own trusts. b) They were all “Morganized.” c) They all failed in the Panic of 1893. d) They all represent trunk lines.