The choices are missing on this question. However, Askia the
Great was known to be one of the greatest leaders of the Songhai Empire. He was
able to expand its territory and encouraged learning and literacy in his
Empire. Askia used to be a general of the Songhai Empire but was able to get
the crown because of Sunni Baru’s choice of religion.
The Declaration included the principles of John Locke. It also included the right to revolt against an unjust ruler, such as the social contract states. ... These two documents reflected some of the ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers, such as Locke's ideas of natural rights, and Rousseau's social contract.
Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed to Kansas, each side hoping to determine the results of the first election held after the law went into effect. ... Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act helped found the Republican Party, which opposed the spread of slavery into the territories.
Answer: Is the perspective biased
Explanation: How I know that the answer is the second option is by ruling out the other options.
You can rule out the first option because who wrote the article, who published the article, and when the article became available to the public is not important in determining weather it is accurate or credible.
You can also rule out the second option because weather or not the source is free is not going to tell you weather it is accurate or not.
And finally, you can rule out the last option because there is no way to tell if the source is inaccurate and credible by the author making a mistake in the article. Like misspelling.
With all this information, you can clearly see that the only answer for this question is the third option. Is the perspective biased?
<u>1) What was the impact of the sinking of the USS Maine?</u>
The impact was the beginning of the Spanish-American War in April 25, 1898.
The sinking of the USS Maine occurred on 15 February 1898 in Havana harbor (Cuba), killing 260 officers and men on board. The ship had suddenly blown up. The U.S. battleship was there in support of Cubans revolution against Spanish.
Though no one really knew for sure that the battle was exploded by Spanish, many blamed the European country to do so. Such belief was also widely spread by the yellow press led by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, proprietors of the New York Journal and the New York World.
<u>2) What was the impact of the sinking of the Lusitania?</u>
The event started to turn American public opinion against Germany, which contributed to the U.S. enter in WWI two years later, on the side of the Allies.
The sinking of Lusitania, a 32,000-ton ship that was carrying about 173 tons of war munitions for Britain, was hit by a torpedo sent by Germans on May 7, 1915. It resulted in the death of more than 1000 people. Though afterward, Germany apologized, it later continued to cause the sinking of several ships more, and in April 1917 the U.S. entered the war.
