In the first battle of the Spanish-American War, Commodore George Dewey
A) routed the Spanish fleet in Havana harbor and blockaded Cuba.
B) devastated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay.
C) raided Havana and kidnapped Spanish General Valeriano Weyler.
D) was humiliated in a surprise attack by the Spanish navy.
B
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What effect did the Open Door Policy have among Chinese citizens?
A. There was little resistance to American involvement in China. B. China forced the passage of the Exclusionary Act. C. There was immediate increased emigration to the United States. D. It contributed to an armed resistance requiring military intervention.
One of the more prominent itinerant preachers of the eighteenth century was
A) Nathaniel Bacon. B) George Whitefield. C) William Pitt. D) John Trenchard.
All of the following statements about the plan John Dickinson proposed for a new central government are true except which one?
a. It proposed a legislature with each state having one vote. b. It did not give the new Congress the power of taxing. c. It gave congress the power to set the westward limits to states. d. It was immediately accepted by most states.
By the early eighteenth century, the northern region of Carolina was orientated toward the cultivation of ______________ while in the southern region ______________ emerged as the main commercial crop
A) ?cotton; tobacco B) ?tobacco; corn C) ?corn; rice D) ?corn; tobacco E) ?tobacco; rice