Which of these individuals¾a president, a painter, and a writer¾were deeply influenced by the frontier myth, enjoyed the physical challenges of the West, and rejected the constraints of the genteel urban world of their youth?
A) Franklin Roosevelt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry James
B) Grover Cleveland, Jackson Pollock, Helen Hunt Jackson
C) Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Remington, Owen Wister
D) Rutherford B. Hayes, Asher Durand, Theodore Dreiser
E) Benjamin Harrison, Frederic Church, Hamlin Garland
C
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Marco Polo's Travels provided Europeans with information about __________
A) North America B) West Africa C) North Africa D) China
The strike at the Homestead plant in Pennsylvania is famous for
a. the assassination of Henry Frick. b. federal government's criticism of Andrew Carnegie. c. armed resistance by striking steel workers. d. intercession by the president on behalf of the strikers. e. arrest of Eugene Debs.
English colonies differed from the Spanish, French, and Dutch colonies in all the following ways EXCEPT that
A) slavery was illegal. B) settlers arrived with the purpose of staying. C) religious dissenters settled in the colonies. D) there was a tradition of self-government. E) entire families emigrated rather than single males.
How did Germany's universities react to the Nazi system?
a. Germany's long and powerful academic tradition created a habit of independent, critical thinking that dominated academia and vigorously opposed the Nazis. b. For generations, German universities promoted extreme nationalism, opposed liberalism, and supported "irrational political Romanticism" and hero worship. A majority of professors and student found their hero in Hitler. c. Germany's universities were focused on the physical sciences and technology (especially since the Second Industrial Revolution) and, thus, were neutral about the highly politicized Nazi system. d. As part of the policy of coordination, massive purges removed a majority of university professors. Universities, therefore, supported the Nazis. e. After initial uncertainties, most German universities adopted a policy of passive resistance.