Well, strictly speaking none of the options are correct.
This is a metaphor, and a metaphor for a country. It was originally applied in 1830s-1850s (within this period, we are not sure when) to what is today Turkey, but was known as the Ottoman Empire back then - so the answer is B.
recently it was used for Greece, too.
1)Germans sinking US merchant ships taking supplies to England
2)Japan's unreasonable demands on the United States (re- instating oil sales and dropping support of the Philipeenes and China)
3)German submarines beginning to shoot at US war ships
4)England and France are typically our allies so we were going to enter the war eventually anyway
5)Pearl Harbor was obviously why we entered the war.
A. Although they were immortal, they had many characteristics of humans.
The term that Mark Twain coined as an era characteriezed by a facade of prosperity was gilded age. "Gilded Age" was a title of a book that he co-wrote with Charles Warner. The book is about poor people trying to get rich and their relentless pursuit of wealth. Gilded gold was a term that meant that gold was placed on top of gold over and over, as in a bar of gold.
The Compromise of 1790 was a compromise between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson with James Madison wherein Hamilton won the decision for the national government to take over and pay the state debts
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