In the 1820s, Mexico attempted to attract American settlers to Texas by
A) ?? promising to make Texas a Protestant state.
B) ?? providing generous land grants to recruiting agents.
C) ?? introducing a viable economic commodity in long horn cattle.
D) ?? forcing Native Americans to leave Texas for New Mexico.
E) ?? offering any settler $1,000 and 200 acres of land.
B
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What negative consequence did the Marshall Plan have?
A) It undermined economic growth in the United States. B) It undermined the growth of capitalism in Western Europe. C) It drove a deeper wedge between the United States and the Soviet Union. D) It created resentment and jealousy in Asia.
While millions of Americans watched on television, police used force against unruly protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in
A) Kent, Ohio. B) Miami, Florida. C) Chicago, Illinois. D) Washington, D.C.
President Wilson viewed America's entry into World War I as an opportunity for the United States to
a. re-establish the balance of power in European diplomacy. b. demonstrate that it was now a global great power. c. rebuild its dangerously small military and naval forces. d. establish a permanent military presence in Europe. e. shape a new international order based on the ideals of democracy.
Philosophes can best be defined as
A) the name given to scholars participating in the furthering of scientific knowledge through groups meetings called salons. B) the name given to eighteenth-century "people of letters" who embraced the Enlightenment worldview. C) those scholars of the eighteenth century that furthered the cause of science via print and protest. D) those learned people that did not attend university but grasped the new scientific concepts. E) thinkers self challenged to explain the workings of the universe.