What was the primary reason joint-stock companies failed in Virginia and Maine?
A. The English government taxed their profits at exorbitant rates.
B. The colonies did not provide enough of a profit.
C. The colonists did not ask for enough investment in infrastructure.
D. The English government demanded control over the operations of the companies.
Answer: B
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A) The merchants were strong supporters of the arts. B) They supported the government through the daimyo. C) They hired historians to work on conserving the past by writing it down. D) The merchants made large donations to charities. E) They helped the shoguns dominate the daimyo, their strong rivals.
How did the arrival of Islam change the previously Buddhist and Hindu societies of Southeast Asia?
What will be an ideal response?
George Catlin advocated
a. placing Indians on reservations. b. efforts to protect America's endangered species. c. continuing the rendezvous system. d. keeping white settlers out of the West. e. the preservation of nature as a national policy.
The rapid growth of the Northwest and Southwest led to which of the following in the immediate aftermath of the War of 1812?
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