When colonists first took up arms against British military forces in America in 1775, their professed goal was to
a. bring about America´s complete independence from Britain.
b. protest Parliament´s utter neglect of the colonies.
c. force the British authorities to open up trans-Appalachian lands for settlement.
d. force the king and Parliament to address their grievances.
e. draw Britain and France into another global war.
d
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The Marshall Plan offered assistance
a. to create a military alliance against the Soviet Union. b. for the economic recovery of Europe. c. that helped split the countries in the Soviet bloc. d. to create nuclear capabilities in Britain and France.
Which of the following was not an opinion on slavery held by free soil supporters?
A) Some free-soilers objected to slavery in the West because they didn't want any blacks at all there. B) Free-soilers believed that American slavery had natural geographic limits beyond which it would not spread. C) Free-soilers believed that the presence of slavery impeded the progress of white civilization. D) Free-soilers believed that wherever slavery appeared, labor lost its dignity. E) Free-soilers thought that slavery should be abolished simply because it was immoral.
Margaret Sanger is remembered for
a. being the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. b. being the first woman who swam the English Channel. c. coining the term "birth control." d. her heat treatments for poliomyelitis.
The "Sea Island Experiment" refers to:
a. northern reformers' efforts to assist former slaves with the transition to freedom. b. the Confederacy's trial use of slaves as soldiers along the South Carolina coast. c. a U.S. government plan to introduce advanced technology to southern farming in order to decrease the need for slaves. d. the unsuccessful effort of General Ulysses Grant to allow former slaves to run their own farms in Mississippi. e. the code name for the Confederate navy's submarine-building program.