Where were European and Asian merchants of the first century most likely to find seaports where they could trade for pepper, cinnamon, and gems?
a. Italy
b. India
c. Afghanistan
d. Japan
e. Arabia
b
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In what area did the federal government play the least active role?
A. housing B. agriculture C. industrial innovation D. low wage labor
Walt Whitman was
A. a poet who described the U.S. as "not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations." B. a major proponent in Congress for capping the flow of migrants into the United States. C. a pivotal figure in Reconstruction. D. the leader of the Northwest Rebellion. E. an early railroad baron.
Despite the benefits of the mercantile system, the American colonists disliked the system because it
a. forced the South to adopt a one-crop economy. b. favored the northern over the southern colonies. c. reinforced class differences in the colonies. d. reinforced dependence on the mother country and stifled economic initiative. e. encouraged harsh repression by British officials.
The tendency toward rationalism and indifference to religion was reversed about 1800 by __________.
a. the rise of new groups like the Mormons and Christian Scientists b. the revivalist movement called the Second Great Awakening c. the influx of religiously traditional immigrants d. the rise of Deism and Unitarianism