In the mid-1840s, the "Oregon country" in the Pacific Northwest
A. remained the center of the French fur-trading empire.
B. was of little interest to the American government.
C. included an Indian population that had been devastated by disease.
D. was primarily occupied by Great Britain.
E. contained many more English settlers than Americans.
C
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Examine Figure 2-1 and compare the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the number of West African slaves shipped to the Americas. Which of the following statements is true?
A) The number of African slave exports declined from the 1500s through the 1700s. B) The peak amount of African slave exports occurred in 1600. C) African slaves from the Western Coast represented the greatest share of exports in 1700. D) Approximately 37,000 African slaves were imported to the Americas in 1700.
Herbert Hoover's primary response to the Great Depression was to
A) let the Depression run its own course. B) expand direct federal relief to the unemployed. C) try to restore public confidence. D) increase direct federal assistance for the hungry and homeless.
If one follows Thomas Mann's career, one may conclude that he a. shed his conservatism and embraced liberalism when the consequences of conservative policies became clear in World War I. b. never regretted his political conservatism when World War I began
c. supported socialist totalitarianism. d. saw Nazism as a reversion to the primitive and never abandoned his old-fashioned conservatism. e. confirmed the observation that a young person who is not a socialist has no heart and an old person who is still a socialist has no brains.
The Erie Canal was completed and the first barge traveled on it in what year?
a. 1815 b. 1820 c. 1825 d. 1830