Of the following states, which initially stood to gain the most from the unsurveyed territory west of the Appalachians?
a) Virginia
b) Maryland
c) Delaware
d) New Jersey
a) Virginia
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Which statement about the nature of the Islamic slave trade prior to European entry is true?
A) The Islamic slave trade did not exist in Africa prior to European entry. B) The Islamic slave trade was not based primarily on race. C) The Islamic slave trade mainly captured adult males for agricultural labor. D) Slavery and the slave trade under Islamic society were as harsh as the European version in the Americas.
The process of interposition entails
A) ?cities opposing state laws. B) ?states opposing federal laws. C) ?citizens opposing municipal laws. D) citizens opposing supreme court decisions.? E) None of these are correct.
What best describes the attitudes of the governments of the United States and Britain to Hitler's annexation of Austria and the German-speaking portions of Czechoslovakia?
A. American isolationist policies prevented the United States from helping the British, and the British, though eager to attack the Nazis, did not think they should do so without American help. B. Both the American and British governments supported German expansion as a way to check the potential expansion of the Soviet Union. C. Roosevelt condemned Hitler's actions but agreed with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that it was best to appease Hitler in order to avoid war. D. Americans were eager to stop Hitler's aggression before it went too far, but the British were eager to avoid another war.
An example of specific American-Canadian cooperation in the decades after World War II was
a. membership in the Common Market. b. the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. c. the Kyoto Agreement to reduce greenhouse gasses. d. the Ottawa Protocol. e. the Northern Great Plains Conservation Pact.