Great britain was the largest empire in the world before world war i. great britain also had the world's largest navy. germany's ruler, kaiser wilhelm, was jealous of great britain's navy. he built many warships so that he could expand the german navy.

the paragraph above describes one of the causes of world war i. building weapons to prepare a country for a future war is called

The ideas of hammond are most clearly an example of which of the following mid-19th century developments? (5 points) the increasingly liberal nature of slavery after the south enforced stronger slave codes the growing use by northern antislavery activists of moral arguments the increasing number of freed slaves in southern states as a result of gradual emancipation laws the growing tendency of southern slaveholders to use the paternal ethos to justify slavery