To what extent did foreign relations shape politics in the early republic?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Most students will see the split engendered by the French Revolution and the influence of Citizen Genêt. They should also grasp the role of the Jay Treaty as dividing American politics even further. Better students will connect these differences to already existing economic and philosophical differences. It is no accident that merchants who were already connected to the British Empire were anxious to distance themselves from the French, while planters seeking to expand their sales on the European continent embraced the French.
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A. the expansion of federally guaranteed home mortgage programs B. an extension of federal grants to state and local governments to stimulate spending C. lower income-tax rates for individuals and corporations D. increases in direct federal assistance to the poor and unemployed
President Franklin Pierce's attempt to annex Hawai'i to the United States failed for which of the following reasons?
A. Northern and Southern Congressmen alike expressed doubts about the nation's ability to defend the island.. B. Southerners would not vote for the entry of another free state into the Union. C. Northern Congressmen feared that an expansionist Slave Power was behind the annexation treaty. D. Northern and Southern Congressmen expressed fears that acquisition of Hawai'i would draw the United States into an Asian war.
Map 27.3 shows that by 1942, Japan controlled the __________ in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific
A) movements for national independence B) underground communist parties C) colonies of the Western countries D) secret religious organizations
In his foreign policy for Latin America, President Herbert Hoover
A. declared America would henceforth only recognize democratically-elected regimes. B. repeatedly ordered troops into various Central American nations. C. closely followed the policies of the two previous administrations. D. canceled Latin American war debts owed to the United States. E. repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.