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During the last years of the nineteenth century, the United States responded to events in China by
 
  A)  sending an American gunboat to force the Manchu dynasty to capitulate.
  B)  requesting equal trading privileges and the opening of trading ports in China.
  C)  bombing the capital until Chinese terrorists surrendered.
  D)  sending covert aid to the Harmonious Righteous Fists in an effort to overthrow the anti-Western Manchu empress.
  E)  demanding that an arbitration commission be established.

Question 2

Which of the following correctly pairs a group or individual with its or his objections to the 1916 nomination of Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court?
 
  A)  American Bar Association: Brandeis's innovative approach to the law
  B)  Republican congressional leaders: Brandeis was too conservative on hot-button social issues
  C)  Industrial Workers of the World: Brandeis a Jew
  D)  Woodrow Wilson: the seat should be filled by the new president.
  E)  National American Woman Suffrage Association: the seat should be filled by a Latino woman.



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

A





 

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