Reagan's Strategic Defensive Initiative was a plan to:
A) force Iran to release American hostages.
B) shoot down missiles with space-based weapons.
C) pull back American forces from overseas bases.
D) arm the Nicaraguan Contras.
Answer: B
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What was the lord-vassal relationship in the Germanic practice of medieval Europe?
a. It moved away from the German traditions of lordship and loyalty. b. It prevented fiefdom from being a function of hereditary. c. It was a direct form of servitude. d. It was an honorable relationship between free men. e. It was a relationship between warriors and peasants.
All of the following statements are TRUE of the Atlantic trade in the eighteenth century EXCEPT:
A) Although important, slave-grown crops actually accounted for only a small portion of the value of the trade. B) The profits from the slave trade in particular stimulated the rise of key English ports. C) New England and the Middle Colonies exported fish, grain, and lumber to the West Indies. D) Profits from the Atlantic trade helped finance the early industrial revolution. E) Europe was the primary market for colonial-grown products such as rice and indigo.
What do the patterns of the internal slave trade in the first half of the nineteenth century suggest?
A) that there was a strong and growing demand for slaves in the Upper South B) that demand for slaves in the Lower South was in decline C) that there was a strong and growing demand for slaves in the Lower South D) that demand for slaves was equally strong in the Upper and Lower South