Darius I built an early version of the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean with the
a. Black Sea
b. Persian Gulf
c. Nile River
d. Red Sea
e. Tigris River
d
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In Pinckney’s Treaty, __________ agreed to stop encouraging Indians to harass Americans.
a. Britain b. France c. Russia d. Spain
European nations did not offer much help to the Confederacy for all the following reasons EXCEPT
A) Europeans were dependent on Northern grain exports. B) the Confederacy made no serious diplomatic efforts to seek aid. C) England had moral qualms about recognizing a slave power. D) England found alternative sources of cotton.
By about 1650, the focus of the global economy shifted from the Indian Ocean to the __________
A) Pacific Ocean B) Mediterranean Sea C) land routes D) Atlantic Ocean
Which of the following is true concerning the involvement of free blacks in the abolitionist movement during the nation's earliest years?
a. Free blacks established their own abolitionist societies through which they extended aid to fugitive slaves. b. Free blacks did not speak in favor of abolition until a minority of whites had advocated the immediate end to slavery c. Free blacks, like antislavery whites, recognized William Lloyd Garrison as the nation's most represent ativeabolitionist. d. Free blacks were too busy trying to cope with a racist society to become concerned with those still enslaved.