Which action best illustrates the policy of isolationism followed by the United States before it entered World War II?
A. signing of a collective security pact with Latin American nations
B. passage of neutrality legislation forbidding arms sales to warring nations
C. embargo on the sale of gasoline and steel to Japan
D. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's exchange of American destroyers for British naval and air bases
Answer: B. passage of neutrality legislation forbidding arms sales to warring nations
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A. Farmers in the West began to try to meet the demands of the marketplace by producing animals, dairy products, grain, and vegetables on a single family farm. B. More and more farmers, especially in the West, began to turn to subsistence farming. C. Farm women began to produce more dairy products to be sold in the market, and then used their profits to buy factory-produced cloth. D. Spinning and weaving at home became more and more important.
The foreign policies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe were similar in that they each
(a) supported wars against England (b) failed to acquire new territory (c) attempted to avoid involvement in European affairs (d) aided the French in return for their help during the Revolutionary War
Before the European colonists reached the New World, the Indians of western and central North America totaled nearly:
A) 250,000. B) 500,000. C) 750,000. D) 1,000,000.
A major demand of the Democratic Societies was
A) universal male suffrage. B) abolition of slavery. C) abolition of peonage. D) religious toleration.