What was the purpose of the Woolens Act of 1699?
A) to protect the English woolen industry from competition
B) to require English merchants to purchase woolens produced in the colonies
C) to prohibit the colonists from buying wool from anywhere but England
D) to ban the production and trade of woolens within the colonies
E) to punish the colonies for importing woolens from non-English sources
A
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Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana had a controversial vote because
A) she was a woman representative. B) Montana had the largest percent of military people of any state. C) she would later vote against World War II. D) suffragists wanted the war in order to push for the right to vote for women and they pressured Rankin to take their side.
Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that
a. free trade was essential to a nation's economic health. b. control of the sea was the key to world domination. c. the United States should continue its policy of isolationism. d. the United States should immediately build an isthmian canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. e. the construction of a large navy was not necessary for a nation to achieve world domination.
In the 1750s, the relationship between the British Empire and the American colonies was characterized by
A) most Americans believing that the benefits of the empire far outweigh the costs B) the British strictly enforcing colonial trade regulations C) most Americans objecting to their membership in the British Empire D) the British constantly intervening in American affairs
The Tennessee trial of John T. Scopes in 1925 illustrated a conflict concerning
(a) free competition in the marketplace (b) due process of law (c) freedom of the press (d) religious beliefs and scientific theories