Bourbon Spain failed to reconquer its colonial trade because of
A) increasingly efficient competition from colonial industrial producers.
B) special commercial advantages granted British merchants by the Metheun Treaty.
C) political resistance from Spanish colonies jealous of their growing economic independence.
D) its own national industrial weakness and its failure to keep sea lanes open during wartime.
D
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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
A) were executed. B) lived in exile at her home in Austria. C) were banished from France. D) were ransomed by an ambassador from England. E) were imprisoned throughout the revolution.
Friedrich List showed how Germany could catch up with British industry by
A) using serfs to provide cheap labor in factories. B) paying workers extremely high wages, as Henry Ford would later do. C) protecting infant industries with high tariffs. D) freeing private enterprise from government interference. E) conquering neighboring countries to provide captive markets.
Women, sometimes by choice but more often by necessity, flocked to the camps of the Patriot armies during the Revolutionary War.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following is accurate about attitudes in the Senate toward the Treaty of Versailles?
A. About half supported it as Wilson submitted it; the other half was irreconcilably opposed to it. B. Most supported it in some form. C. Democrats uniformly voted for its amended version against Wilson's express instructions; Republicans consistently voted against it. D. Few supported it.