President Polk based the war message he delivered to Congress in 1846 on the claim that
A) Mexico had refused to pay its debts.
B) Mexican authorities were mistreating American settlers in Texas and California.
C) Mexico and Great Britain were plotting to halt American expansion into the Southwest.
D) Mexicans had invaded the United States.
D
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What characterizes the conduct of the United States under the Good Neighbor policy?
A. It did not provide support for military dictators in Latin America. B. It provided substantial economic assistance for industrial development in Latin America. C. It no longer intervened militarily in Latin America. D. It was less blatant in its domination of Latin America.
Examine the changing economic world of the Ottoman, Russian, Qing, and Tokugawa states. Why did these societies have so much trouble competing with western Europeans?
What will be an ideal response?
In spite of opposition to new ideas, the church did embrace some findings, including:
a. Copernicus' ideas of retrograde planetary motion. b. Robert Boyle's establishment of the Royal Society to study the natural world. c. the Gregorian calendar based on the new astronomy, as issued by the pope. d. Galileo's explanation of the sun in the Letter to the Duchess Christina e. Newton's ideas of gravity and thermodynamics
African culture has adapted to serve the tourist industry and the export market in the areas of
a. pottery and steel fabrication in Axum. b. wood carving, painting, and sculpture. c. publication, tripling the Onitsha Market pamphlets for tourists since 1994. d. novels and poetry written in local languages. e. high grade steel manufacturing and export.