The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labor of the indigenous population to extract _______ from the jungle.
a. Rubber.
b. Bauxite.
c. Bananas.
d. Cacao.
a. Rubber.
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The fight over the admission of Missouri to the Union
A. resulted solely from the emotional feelings that people had about slavery. B. ushered in an era in which virtually every session of Congress had to deal with the slavery issue. C. concerned purely political questions, with no discussion about the morality of slavery. D. was of great political significance because Missouri's admission would disrupt the balance between slave and free states in the Senate.
The discovery and analysis of _________________ suggests the reasons for the abandonment of the northern European and Russian plains for 15,000 years.
a. Glaciers containing the remains of humans who were swept away in a sudden ice flow. b. Gigantic wooly mammoth remains, which had the effect of terrifying humans into leaving the area. c. Malaria-infected mosquitoes, embedded within samples of amber in the Baltic Sea region. d. Human bone remnants, which show signs of malnutrition and disease as a result of the Ice Age's onset.
According to J. P. Morgan's views, __________ were more important than industrialists.
a. managers b. investors c. bankers d. financiers
In 1830, what political figure said, "The Union, next to our liberty most dear"?
A. Henry Clay B. John C. Calhoun C. Daniel Webster D. Andrew Jackson E. Robert Hayne