The most important port and the largest city in the North American colonies by 1776 was

a. Charleston
b. Baltimore
c. Philadelphia
d. New York
e. Boston


Ans: c. Philadelphia

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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To relieve the misery caused by massive unemployment, Herbert Hoover

a. launched a extensive jobs program. b. depended on voluntary efforts. c. did nothing. d. approved the Works Project Administration (WPA).

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Clinton’s philosophy of foreign affairs is best described as

a. militantly interventionist. b. isolationist. c. Wilsonian. d. flexible. e. internationalist.

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What is the best way to describe the cahiers de doléances?

a) lists of grievances, made by many groups in France, enumerating their complaints about their lives under the ancien régime b) journals various people in France made to record their sorrow at the events of the Revolution Consider This: Women and the sans-culottes took advantage of the opportunity to create their own cahiers. See 6.5: Narrative: Poets and Peasants. c) the formal demand for an apology made by King Louis XVI to the members of the Estates General after their behavior at Versailles Consider This: Women and the sans-culottes took advantage of the opportunity to create their own cahiers. See 6.5: Narrative: Poets and Peasants. d) newspaper accounts of the events leading up to the formation of the National Assembly Consider This: Women and the sans-culottes took advantage of the opportunity to create their own cahiers. See 6.5: Narrative: Poets and Peasants.

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