Aside from Hawaii and Alaska, the U.S. acquisition of ____ marked the first time it absorbed a region that was not contiguous to the United States
a. Guam
b. Puerto Rico
c. Cuba
d. Panama
e. the Philippines
e
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Why was the 1807 federal slavery law unsatisfying for everyone?
A) On the one hand, slave owners felt it threatened their livelihood, but on the other hand, abolitionists felt it did little to end slavery. B) It did nothing to affect slavery or the slave trade in the United States and only frustrated relations with European allies. C) On the one hand, it appeased antislavery European allies, but on the other hand, it frustrated U.S. slave owners. D) It granted African Americans only freedom, not any voting or civil rights, while at the same time infuriating their slave owners. E) It appeased southern slave owners but infuriated northern abolitionists.
What advantages and disadvantages did each side have when the Civil War began?
What will be an ideal response?
During the 1930s, the sit-down strike
A. was first used in the steel industry. B. was a new and controversial labor tactic. C. was eventually broken by the Michigan National Guard. D. was upheld by the courts and state governments. E. All these answers are correct.
During the war between France and Prussia
a. the South German states joined the French against the Prussian threat. b. Napoleon III defeated the Prussian ending the rise of Prussia. c. Austria came to France's aid. d. Napoleon III was captured and Parisians were threatened with starvation. e. Bismarck lost his gamble that the southern Germans would ally with Prussia.