How were Africans affected by the global depression?
a. Since prices for tropical goods remained steady, most Africans did not have a drop in income.
b. Colonial governments increased taxes on peasant farmers to make up for other economic losses.
c. The British welfare system, enacted in Britain, was extended to its African colonies.
d. Africans were forced to plant cash crops.
e. Most African peasants resorted to subsistence farming.
d
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In an effort to find allies in a hostile world, Lenin
a. tried to develop temporary alliances with colonial nationalist movements in order to overthrow the imperialist colonial regimes. b. used the Comintern to train espionage agents in German army training centers. c. began making military alliances with the nations of Africa and Asia. d. established the Comintern to stimulate international trade. e. made investments in other countries through London and New York banks.
Which of the following is not one of China’s major river systems?
a. Yellow b. West c. Yangzi d. Oxus e. Xijiang
Thomas Jefferson opposed Alexander Hamilton's plan to create a national bank primarily because the plan would
(a) weaken the nation's currency (b) increase the national debt (c) promote the interests of farmers (d) depend on a loose interpretation of the Constitution
As a result of the Black Death,
A. the people of Europe turned to the Christian religion for the first time. B. it is estimated that one-third of the people of Europe died in the late fourteenth century. C. the Angle and Saxon tribes of England were so weakened that they were easily defeated by William of Normandy. D. European scientists finally accepted the germ theory of disease long advanced by Arab scholars.