The "German Triangle" in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Referred to

question 69

Multiple Choice

The "German triangle" in the mid-nineteenth century referred to

• A) a Baltimore neighborhood with a large German immigrant population.
• B) the identifying patch German immigrants were forced to wear in some American cities.
• C) Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Milwaukee-cities with large German populations.
• D) the special kind of ballot Democrats gave German-speaking voters.
• E) the superior plow that German immigrant Thomas Mannheim introduced to the United States.

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Definitions:

Conscious Awareness

is the state of being aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, and actions.

Retroactive Interference

A memory phenomenon where newer information interferes with the ability to remember older information.

Source Amnesia

Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. Source amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories.

Retroactive Interference

A memory phenomenon where newly learned information interferes with the recall of information learned previously.