It Is Reasonable to Hypothesize That During the Mexican-American War

question 21

Multiple Choice

It is reasonable to hypothesize that during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) when some Irish soldiers deserted from the U.S. Army to join the Mexican Army instead, most were at least partly motivated by

• A) feelings of loyalty toward fellow Roman Catholics.
• B) feelings of loyalty toward fellow Protestant immigrants.
• C) feelings of loyalty toward nonreligious immigrants.
• D) anti-war philosophies prevalent in the Protestantism of the time.
• E) the commands of Protestant church leaders.

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Confidence Interval

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The fraction of individuals in a population having a particular attribute, representing a particular kind of population parameter.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the true value of an unknown population parameter with a specified level of confidence.

Population Proportion

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