Which of these was not a result of massive U.S. investment in Colombia in the 1920s?
A) The shift of workers from agricultural to urban employment.
B) The dramatic increase in oil production and exports.
C) The growth of low-wage, unskilled jobs for working-class women.
D) The reduction of food production and increased living costs, which left workers poorer.
B
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What was the significance of the “revolutionary days”?
a) These outbreaks of violence helped break deadlocks in the Legislative Assembly and shift power to the Parisian sans-culottes. b) The revolutionary days were special holidays to honor those who had died advancing the cause and to remind the living to support it. Consider This: The Fall of the Bastille and the October Days are two of the best examples of this phenomenon. See 6.2: The People’s Revolution. c) The revolutionary days were held in the Legislative Assembly once each month to review the revolution’s progress. Consider This: The Fall of the Bastille and the October Days are two of the best examples of this phenomenon. See 6.2: The People’s Revolution. d) These occasional days of fasting were held to make sure the revolutionaries understood sacrifice and also to stretch food supplies. Consider This: The Fall of the Bastille and the October Days are two of the best examples of this phenomenon. See 6.2: The People’s Revolution.
Eisenhower promoted the military-industrial complex as necessary for the preservation of democracy
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
One of the main objections that the Macedonians and Greeks had to Alexander's conquests was
a. his grandiose plans to build an empire. b. his insistence that everyone learn to speak Greek. c. his desire to see Persian culture blend with Macedonian. d. his refusal to settle in one area and raise a family. e. none of these.
The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California
A. with the agreement that there would be no additional states added for ten years. B. as a free state, along with Utah and New Mexico as slave states. C. as a slave state. D. along with an agreement to construct a transcontinental railroad. E. along with a strengthened fugitive slave law.