How did young men from middle-class and wealthy families so often avoid military service in Vietnam?
A) They got college deferments.
B) They paid for substitutes to serve in their places.
C) They faced favorable draft boards.
D) They were intentionally given high draft numbers.
Answer: A
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a. occurred early in the Industrial Revolution. b. was made possible by the use of hydroelectric power. c. happened after 1860 and prior to World War I. d. was limited to Europe until after World War I. e. occurred during World War I.
A collection of statutes that became known as the Jim Crow laws
A. established poll taxes. B. made lynching a legal and permissible activity. C. legalized segregation. D. instituted literacy tests at polling places.
Warfare resumed in Vietnam in 1959 because
a. of the Afghan invasion of Kazakhstan. b. Ho Chi Minh rejected the Geneva Accords. c. the United States, fearful of a Communist victory in the elections agreed to at Geneva, had ignored the Geneva Accords and aided the South Vietnamese government. d. Ngo Dinh Diem began a Communist takeover of South Vietnam. e. of the Chinese Communist invasion of nearby Cambodia.
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was reluctant to become a candidate for president because
A. the 1910 elections seemed to illustrate that progressivism was on the wane. B. None of these answers is correct. C. many conservative Republicans asked him to seek the nomination of the party. D. President William H. Taft announced he would seek reelection. E. Robert La Follette had been working to secure the nomination for himself.