For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance.
free elections in Eastern Europe
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Events in the late 1760s and early 1770s helped to bring about a new consensus in the colonies. What was that consensus?
A) The government could not tax the colonies because they were not represented in Parliament. B) The British constitution could be altered by the passage of new laws. C) Parliament had no lawmaking authority over the colonies except for the right to regulate imperial commerce. D) The American colonies would be free from tyranny only when they were independent of British rule. E) Only by working within the British constitution could the colonies safeguard their liberties.
Advocates of mercantilism generally favored reducing tariffs to promote free trade
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Like their counterparts in Korea and Japan, the new Vietnamese literate elites ____________.
a. Rejected the imposition of Buddhist culture. b. Created an independent state with their own emperor by 522 CE. c. Were incorporated into the far-flung world of Chinese civilization. d. Were caught up in civil warfare that left their ranks decimated.
Black northerners did not initially serve in the Union army during the Civil War for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
a. whites worried that blacks would use military service as a ground for demanding their rights as citizens. b. blacks in the North refused to enlist in the military until the Union made the emancipation of southern slaves an official aim of the war. c. white officers believed that blacks would make poor soldiers who would flee in the face of danger. d. Lincoln worried that allowing blacks to serve might compel the Border States to secede.