1. The clearest way to modify or refute the answer given in the excerpt to the question, “What then is the American, this new man?" would be to
point out the important role of
(A) the enslaved African Americans who worked on plantations
(B) the leaders who wrote the Constitution
(C) the development of political parties
(D) the ideas in Washington's Farewell Address

Two gymnastics teams are intense rivals. the first team has started recruiting new gymnasts from different cities and even foreign countires in an effort to build a stronger team. after learning this, the secondteam begins its own recruitment campaign to find better gymnasts. over a period of months, each team recruits dozens of players, each time trying to find a better recruit than its rivals most recent addition. which idea from the cold war is most similar to this scenario