A tax levied on a crop or a product is called a ____________________ .
a. mutiny
b. gentry
c. balance of trade
d. duty
Ans: d. duty
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The overall effect of the War of 1812 left the United States a much more confident and proud nation than it had been up until the onset of the war and poised for further territorial expansion and economic development
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Congressional Democrats were able to win approval for Texas annexation by treating it as
A. an application for statehood. B. a treaty with a foreign nation. C. an individual nation. D. part of Mexico.
How did former slaves’ ideas about their freedom conflict with the ideas of their northern allies?
A) Their northern allies wanted freed blacks to continue working on plantations for white planters, but African Americans did not want to return to plantation life. B) Freed blacks wanted to move to the North and begin new lives, but their northern allies felt they needed to stay in the South. C) Their northern allies felt that freed blacks should continue with their communal work system, but freed blacks wanted to take part in the piecework system. D) Freed blacks wanted to move to new land of their own, while their northern allies felt they should remain on the land where their families had lived for generations. E) Freed blacks wanted to continue with a family-based communal work system, but northerners wanted them to become individual wage earners.
In writing The True Interest, Charles Inglis predicted a(n)
a. British rout of the Americans in a war. b. American victory over England in a war. c. outbreak of global war in the event of a war for independence. d. compromise between the colonists and the British rather than a war.