What inspired the rivalry between Russia and Japan prior to the Russo-Japanese War?
a. Steam navigation increased opportunities for commerce across the Pacific and caused Russia and Japan to want to be major Pacific powers.
b. They were competing for favored trading rights with Europe.
c. Many Russians had immigrated to Japan in search of economic success.
d. They shared the natural resources of the Asian interior.
a
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The Philippines were
a. ceded by the Dutch to Spain in the eighteenth century. b. controlled by Hindu and Buddhist traders. c. seized from the Spanish by the Islamic state of Acheh in the seventeenth century. d. conquered by the Spanish in the sixteenth century.
Population growth in the Middle Colonies can largely be attributed to
A. migration from New England. B. high fertility and low mortality rates. C. immigrants from Scotland and Ireland. D. elevated slave importation.
New England shipbuilders suffered particular economic hardship in the aftermath of the war because
a. international trade had slumped across the globe. b. cheap French competition stole their business. c. Britain had banned the sale of American farm products in the West Indies, which had been a staple of the American shipping business. d. wartime destruction had depleted the local lumber supply.
One strategy that both the Union and the Confederacy used as the war progressed was:
A) limited warfare. B) instituting an income tax. C) requiring slaves and former slaves to serve in combat. D) sending emissaries to negotiate a limited peace. E) mandating that all men above the age of 18 serve in the military.