Nineteenth-century Gothic literature emphasized
A. an attraction to the exotic and unfamiliar.
B. a love of nature.
C. a disdain for intellectual pursuits.
D. a disregard for emotion.
E. literary conformity.
Answer: A
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A) By issuing this doctrine, the United States was making a strong statement that it was its business to protect all of the independent nations of Americas from European influence and control. B) The Monroe Doctrine had no impact on Britain's long-standing control of Canada, Russia's dominance of Alaska, and those colonies that Spain still claimed in Latin America. C) Europe was amazed and disturbed by the arrogance of the new and relatively weak United States, and doubted America could enforce the new policy. D) The United States would allow select new European colonies in the Americas on a case-by-case basis.
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a. Northern Securities. b. United States Steel. c. General Electric. d. Armour Meat-Packing. e. Standard Oil.
Stalin's idea of Soviet progress was through
a. revolutions in advanced nations that would produce a global revolution. b. allowing some space for capitalism and foreign investment. c. top-down governmental control of every aspect of economic, political, and social life. d. the consolidation and transition of power to important governmental departments. e. lifting all restrictions on private enterprise.
The development of rice plantations in South Carolina:
a. required such large capital investments that Carolina’s planters never became as wealthy as those in the Chesapeake region. b. is considered by most historians to be the most important cause of the Yamasee War. c. would have proven impossible without the importation of thousands of European indentured servants to serve as a labor force. d. led to a black majority in that colony by the 1730s. e. occurred only after the colony’s planters unsuccessfully sought to cultivate tobacco, sugarcane, and indigo.