Defend the following statement: "Britain's attempts to tighten the reins of government and raise revenues from the colonies in the 1760s and early 1770s convinced many Americans that the Real Whigs' reasoning applied to their circumstances¼. They began to interpret British measures in light of the Real Whigs' warnings and to see evil designs behind the actions of Grenville and his successors."
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The treaty of 1858 signed by U.S. consul Townsend Harris and the Japanese accomplished all of the following except
A. increasing the number of Japanese ports in which the Americans could trade and live. B. providing for the exchange of ministers between the two nations. C. giving privileges of extraterritoriality to Americans living in Japan. D. restricting the American presence in Japan to the port of Nagasaki. E. effectively ending Japan's diplomatic isolation.
The turbulent quarter-century between 1949 and 1974 was marked by all of these global transformations EXCEPT the
a. emergence of dozens of new nations b. face-off between the two superpowers of America and the Soviet Union c. influential power and actions of the United Nations d. impact of antidemocratic forces on strategic locations of the world e. emergence of Communist China