Many nineteenth-century Americans saw the Hawaiian Islands as __________.
a. an exciting travel destination
b. inhospitable and undesirable
c. a possible way station to Asian markets
d. a ready market for American commodities
c. a possible way station to Asian markets
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Aside from traditionally different views on the subject, why was the main issue in national politics separating Republicans and Democrats tariffs?
A) Most conflict over other fundamental issues had evaporated. B) Local and state elections were no longer contentious. C) Civil service reform had profoundly reshaped American government. D) American politics had centered on threatening economic competition from Asia.
To respond to the fears that the U.S. had fallen behind the Soviets after Sputnik, in 1961 Kennedy pledged that, by the end of the decade, the U.S. would:
A) build a supersonic passenger plane. B) put a man on the moon. C) produce most of its electricity from nuclear power. D) graduate more science Ph.Ds than any other nation.
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