The United States contributed to the outbreak of World War II in all of the following ways except
a. insisting that Britain and France pay back their war debts.
b. building up its military and promoting brinkmanship.
c. adopting an isolationist stance and removing itself from European affairs.
d. failing to fulfill its responsibilities as the hegemonic economic power.
b
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According to Thomas Hobbes, absolutism is favorable because
A) people create government to enrich society. B) absolute rulers have no limiting power. C) God is the source of power for rulers. D) people are not capable of governing themselves. E) government exists to protect property.
Absentee ownership became common on Caribbean plantations, and overseeing slave labor was sometimes performed by
a. loyal slaves who received better living conditions and wages. b. imported mercenary soldiers. c. lower-status European immigrants. d. the master's private army. e. Jesuit priests and the members of their Amerindian schools.
Regarding the consequences of the Seven Years' War that led to the rift between the colonies and England, which of the following is NOT correctly stated?
A. The French and Indian threats were removed, so the British government felt they had no need to keep troops in the colonies. B. The British government was deeply in debt. C. British imperial officials, with a greatly expanded empire to run, were determined to centralize and extend British rule over the colonies. D. Both the Americans and the British came out of the war unhappy with the way the other had behaved.
Why did more than a hundred senators and congressmen sign the Southern Manifesto?
A) They were declaring an intention to secede from the Union again. B) They were expressing concern about the lack of a balanced federal budget. C) They were declaring an intention to hunt down communists working in government. D) They were asking Eisenhower to show his support for the bus boycott. E) They were protesting the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruling.