The Argentine general who seized power in 1946 with the support of the "shirtless ones" was
a. Getulio Vargas.
b. Juan Peron.
c. Francisco Madero.
d. Fulgencio Bautista.
e. Juan Vicente Gomez.
b
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Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that in order to achieve national greatness, America should:
A) sustain a modern standing army. B) create its own nuclear weapons. C) compete on an equal basis with other empires. D) uphold its position in the world as a republic that refused to colonize others. E) keep warships and maintain overseas colonies for naval supply bases.
A major victory for early labor unions was winning
a. a ban on the use of immigrants as strikebreakers b. an eight-hour workday c. a ban on the use of child labor d. elimination of the closed shop e. elimination of imprisonment for debt
Both Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, and the various state legislatures had the power to independently tax individual Americans
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following was NOT true about slavery as a labor system?
A. As slavery spread into the Deep South, wealth and power became more equally shared among the various classes of white southerners. B. Only about 20 percent of slaves worked in cities or towns. C. Slavery was worth more in terms of investment than all the land in the South. D. Only a minority of southerners owned slaves.