Unable to repay the enormous debt incurred from the French-led construction of the _________in 1869, a debt-collection effort which Britain had taken over from France, Egypt was ultimately occupied by a British expeditionary force in 1882.
a. Corinthian Canal
b. Panama Canal
c. Suez Canal
d. Hormuz Canal
c. Suez Canal
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All of the following was TRUE of the War Hawks EXCEPT
A) they were congressional advocates of a war with Britain, who were mostly from the South and the West. B) they were confident that if the United States declared war on Britain, the French inhabitants who remained in Canada would revolt, allowing the United States to seize Canada. C) they were composed mostly of Federalists disenchanted with Great Britain. D) they also wanted to attack the small Spanish colonies and Florida and seize the territory for the United States.
The flota system was
a. the chief method for bringing slaves to Spanish colonies. b. an attempt to regulate Spanish trade in the New World. c. an extremely efficient method of extracting the wealth of the New World. d. used by Spain to convert Native Americans to Catholicism.
The court-packing plan
a. involved rumors of sexual misconduct on the bench. b. refers to the difficult time the court faced during major renovations of the court in the 1930s. c. was an effort by Roosevelt to add justices to the bench, creating his own favorable majority in the Supreme Court. d. was an ill-advised and pathetically executed attack on the Capitol by the KKK.
Some historians say that, besides Washington's leadership, the most crucial reason for the American victory in the Revolutionary War was _______
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word