The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A. resulted in a U.S. declaration of war on North Vietnam.
B. both gave President Lyndon Johnson wide latitude to escalate the conflict, and called for 250,000 U.S. combat troops to be sent to Vietnam.
C. gave President Lyndon Johnson wide latitude to escalate the conflict.
D. called for 250,000 U.S. combat troops to be sent to Vietnam.
E. None of these answers is correct.
Answer: C
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a. curb the activities of smugglers by issuing harsher penalties. b. increase the efficiency of tax collection methods in the colonies. c. encourage the creation of sugar plantations in North America. d. offset the increasing costs of colonial administration.
Enlightenment economic thought included
a. acceptance of self-interest as something good. b. praise for entrepreneurship and free markets unencumbered by governments. c. the inevitability of progress in capitalism. d. the belief that the laws of economics could be discovered. e. all of the above
In order to establish Greek presence in the territories he conquered, Alexander established
a. new colonies populated by retired soldiers b. satrapies of deported Greeks. c. freedom from slavery for any Greek who would move to his new cities. d. trade agreements free of tariffs for Greek merchants e. universities led by Greek philosophers.
The reality behind the Cult of Domesticity was ________
A) the growing urban population of the nation B) the accepted use of child labor C) a growing division between the workplace and the home D) the increasing acceptance of careers for women E) the staggering number of women dying during childbirth