Cuba developed into a major sugar producer in the first part of the nineteenth century because
A) U.S. investors rushed into the island after the War of 1812.
B) a civil war in Jamaica destroyed it as a sugar producer.
C) the British invested heavily in the island.
D) Haiti was knocked out as a sugar producer by its devastating war for independence.
D
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In the southern highlands of East Africa, Bantu kings built a great capital with stone palaces at
A) Benin. B) Mapungubwe. C) Great Zimbabwe. D) Kumbi. E) Timbuktu.
At the outset of the Depression, President Herbert Hoover:
a. requested that J. P. Morgan lend money to the banks as he had done in the Panic of 1907 b. attempted to use the power of the government to alter the business cycle c. called for businessmen to buy and invest as usual d. immediately perceived the seriousness of the situation
The archaic Native Americans had spread across the Americas by about ________
A) 100 C.E. B) 800 C.E. C) 240 B.C.E. D) 9000 B.C.E.
A counting house was
a. the place where railroad companies planned their train schedules and freight rates. b. the place where the paperwork for a merchant's commercial transactions was completed. c. a corporation's central warehouse. d. a bank.