What did richard current mean when he described the civil war after the summer of 1863 as a "war of attrition"? a. the south was unable to secure the support of foreign countries sympathetic to its cause after 1863. b. the north's superior resources and military strength would inevitably wear down the south's ability to continue the war. c. southern generals remained able to engage union forces without additional troops or supplies. d. northern generals employed defensive strategies against which the confederate forces stood little chance.

the pogroms became known as kristallnacht, the "night of shattered glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets. the morning after the pogroms 30,000 german jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being jewish and sent to concentration camps, where hundreds of them perished.

in the 1800s, chinese workers migrated to the united states, first to work in the gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry. chinese immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the american west, and as chinese laborers grew successful in the united states, a number of them became entrepreneurs in their own right. as the numbers of chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-chinese sentiment among other workers in the american economy. this finally resulted in legislation that aimed to limit future immigration of chinese workers to the united states, and threatened to sour diplomatic relations between the united states and china.