Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish immigrants for all of the following reasons except
a. the Irish immigrants were financially poor and initially struggled to make economic gains in American society.
b. the Irish immigrants were thought to love alcohol to excess.
c. the Irish immmigrants were proudly and openly Roman Catholic.
d. the Irish immigrants constructed a network of parish schools that promoted and advanced Roman Catholicism in America.
e. the Irish immigrants were very slow to learn American English and mostly spoke Gaelic in their urban neighborhoods.
e
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A) Britain had large numbers of soldiers already stationed in North America. B) Britain had the resources to hire German mercenaries as soldiers. C) Britain had long had one of the best navies in the world. D) The British population was more than 4 times greater than that of the colonies. E) Britain had a nearly unlimited ability to finance the war, no matter how long it dragged on.
Which of these is not among the reactions to the Supreme Court ruling overturning segregation in schools?
A) Southern politicians vowed to resist it. B) Eisenhower forced every state to comply with the order. C) The president told an aide that the ruling set back progress in the south by fifteen years. D) Southerners organized White Citizens Councils. E) The Ku Klux Klan saw membership increase.
Geographically, Korea could be described as:
a. Basically consisting of planes, with a few high plateaus. b. Generally mountainous in the north and hilly in the south. c. Desolate and arid in the southern areas, forcing South Koreans to import most of their food. d. Rainy in the winter and hot and dry in the summer.
In the 1992 national elections, Democratic candidate Bill Clinton
a. campaigned as a "new Democrat" who proposed to move away from his party's traditional liberalism. b. campaigned on a platform criticizing President Bush's leadership in the Persian Gulf War. c. effectively prevented third-party candidate Ross Perot from taking votes away from the Democrats. d. stayed away from economic issues because of the growing prosperity under President Bush. e. proved inarticulate and unable to respond to sharp Republican attacks on his character and record.