Who were the Boers?
A) an important tribe in Zaire
B) Dutch settlers in southern Africa
C) rulers of a great kingdom centered in Zimbabwe
D) an uneducated, dull, and generally boring people
E) farmers from France who settled Rhodesia
B
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What was the primary result of introducing the zamindar system in rural India?
A. Rent increases across rural India forced many families from their homes. B. The countryside became politically and socially stable for the duration of British rule. C. Farmers were able to become landed gentry, which mirrored the British system. D. Local gentry increased taxes and forced the less fortunate to become tenants or lose their land entirely. E. It facilitated the collection of agricultural taxes and created a stronger political system.
All of the following motivated U.S. foreign policy from 1898 to 1917 except a
a. desire to promote goodwill and friendship with other nations. b. belief in the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race and its responsibility for uplifting inferior races. c. need for new markets for American goods. d. belief that the United States could and should become a world power. e. desire to strengthen the navy.
At the peace conference at Ghent, the British eventually
a. refused to bargain without the involvement of their Indian allies. b. demanded more and more from the Americans, whose army had shown its weaknesses. c. offered Canada to the United States in exchange for the Oregon country. d. proposed to reopen trade if the Americans cut all ties to Napoleon. e. backed away from their earlier demands for several concessions from the United States.
The tax on tea was retained when the Townshend Acts were repealed because
a. Parliament believed the colonists would not object. b. the money was needed to support troops. c. it kept alive the principle of parliamentary taxation. d. it was the only tax passed by the colonists. e. colonial governors requested it.