The excerpt below is from a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson. By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Concord Hymn"
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The lines from the poem refer to which battle of the American Revolution?
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Correct answer is the battle of Concord, that happened on April 19th, 1775.

Explanation:

Shot heard round the world is a famous sentence that is usually used to describe the beginning of the war between Britain and thirteen colonies. At first glance, small conflicts at Lexington and Concord were actually the first battle of the war that lasted for eight years. The battle of Concord, that was fought in Massachusetts opened the battlefield in this colony that was for a long period of time a place of many conflicts.

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explanation:

the options of this question are:

a) president wilson’s desire to form the league of nations  

b) germany’s desire for reasonable conditions of surrender and fair treatment.  

c)europe’s desire to maintain original pre-war borders  

d) the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions

the correct answer is d) the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions.

the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions had the greatest influence on how germany was treated after world war i.

it is estimated that the cost of wwi was around 260 billion dollars, and the allies wanted germany to pay a big part for the losses. the allies also wanted to impose land losses as well as limit the army of germany and confiscate their industrial resources to apply the retribution.

in the united states, president woodrow wilson created the fourteen points to be delivered to germany, as a peace program. he presented these documents to the u.s. congress in january 1918.