What motivated American farmers and industrialists to search for new overseas markets?
a) saturation of the domestic market
b) contraction of the domestic labor pool
c) commitment to free trade agreements
d) intensification of sectional conflict
a) saturation of the domestic market
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Federalists were those who
A) sought to annex Canada. B) entirely rejected the idea of national independence. C) wanted the new constitution ratified. D) insisted on maximum rights for individual states. E) demanded a return to the Articles of Confederation.
This massacre of some 300 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers took place in 1968
a. The Hanoi massacre b. The My Lai massacre c. The Danang massacre d. The Pleiku massacre
New England agriculture was shaped by all of the following except
a. a short growing season. b. rocky soil. c. lack of rainfall. d. small farms. e. European demand for its produce.
Joseph Davis’s Hurricane Plantation in Mississippi was unique in offering a degree of dignity and negotiated conditions to slaves. What was Davis reasoning?
A) Slaves would be more productive if their conditions were improved. B) Christian teaching required the humane treatment of servants. C) The South had a moral obligation to transition toward free labor. D) The slave population was shrinking, and new slaves were becoming too expense to purchase.