Which of the following is true of the enslavement of Africans?
A) There was a full-fledged movement against slavery by the Anglicans before the American Revolution.
B) The process of enslaving Africans began with the middle passage across the Atlantic Ocean.
C) The process by which the slaves came to America was rationalized by the profits to be made.
D) Slave traders mostly put their slaves to work in plantations after entering the New World.
E) The captured slaves were mostly made to work on farms producing wheat in New England.
C
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Other than for the purpose of containing communism, what was the goal of the Marshall Plan?
A. to limit the amount of aid given to foreign countries B. to extend the American military presence into Eastern Europe C. to bring Eastern Europe into the United Nations D. to create export markets in Europe
One of the few successful wartime American efforts to save Jews from perishing in the Holocaust came when
a. Americans helped some German and Austrian Jews seek refugee in neutral Sweden and Switzerland. b. American Zionist organizations helped Romanian Jews escape to Israel. c. the U.S. Air Force bombed the rail lines leading to Auschwitz. d. American agents enabled French Jews to escape across the Pyrenees into Spain. e. Franklin Roosevelt's War Refugee Board helped several thousand Hungarian Jews escape Nazi tyranny.
What caused the United States to view the French war in Indochina as connected to the Cold War?
A. the Chinese Revolution B. the Algerian war of independence C. the election of Richard Nixon D. North Korea's invasion of South Korea
Initial response to European traders in India was not enthusiastic because a. European goods were not seen as desireable
b. Christianity was off-putting to the Muslim monarchs. c. Indian merchants had well-established trade connections for centuries in the Indian Ocean trade network. d. Slavery was prohibited in India. e. There was no uniform coinage among the Europeans, making trade equivalencies impossible.