Which of the following does NOT characterize the Young America movement of the 1840s and 1850s?

A) territorial expansion
B) an aggressive foreign policy
C) economic expansion and growth
D) technological progress
E) appraisal of American values


Answer: E

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When Martin Luther King, Jr., publicly came out against the Vietnam War in 1967, he contended that __________

A) the war consumed funds that might otherwise be used to fight Communism elsewhere
B) black casualties in the war were disproportionately high and contrasted with the strategy of nonviolence by civil rights activists
C) the war in Vietnam was a civil war and not about communist subversion
D) African Americans should oppose any sort of state-sponsored violence

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Military censors forbade the publication of photographs of

A) military leaders. B) badly mutilated corpses. C) battles. D) anonymous war dead. E) flag-draped coffins.

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Which of the following is true concerning the struggle for supremacy between cattle ranchers and sheepherders?

a. Sheepherders claimed that cattle ruined the grazing land. b. Both groups typically used the land illegally. c. Sheepherders claimed that cattle left the land with a foul smell. d. Sheepherders were generally peaceful, whereas ranchers were disposed to settle differences violently.

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Which of the following describes the traveler in this chapter, Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake?

a. All of the answers are correct. b. Although her mother was English, her family lived on the Indian reserve. c. She considered herself a patriotic subject of the British Empire. d. Her poems often emphasized the exploitation of the Indian nations. e. She made a living from her poetry.

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