Which of the following best describes the initial impact of the renewed conflict between Great Britain and France on American commerce?
a. United States merchants lost a sizable number of ships to both British and French assaults.
b. Both the British and the French regularly seized whole cargoes of American grain.
c. The British and the French imposed an embargo against American trade with their West Indian possessions.
d. The United States, as the world's largest neutral carrier, benefited commercially during the first two years ofthe war.
d
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Where did Britain find its largest source of the cheap labor needed for its factory system?
a. India b. Poor children c. Its American colonies d. Prisoners e. Landless English peasants
Which of the following was described as “an international kiss”?
a) Kellogg–Briand Pact b) Tripartite Pact c) Axis Powers d) Nazi blitzkrieg
By the 1850s, the prejudice of many Americans had turned them into "nativists" who:
a. supported the claims of American Indians to their lands b. sought to exclude foreigners from America and reduce their influence in American life c. were people whose intense patriotism made them sensitive to British slights on America d. encouraged immigration, so immigrants would perform undesirable labor
By early 1946, Soviet officials
a. viewed America as an ally because of its socialistic New Deal. b. feared that a united Germany would try to undermine its Communist regime. c. accepted the United States' leadership in world affairs. d. pictured the United States as globally aggressive and keeping a monopoly on atomic technology.