The first breach in the monopoly of the Cádiz merchant guild over trade to Spanish America was the
A) organization of the Caracas Company.
B) replacement of the fleet system by register ships.
C) organization of the Havana Company.
D) decree of free trade of 1778.
A
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The National Organization of Women embodied
A) political activism. B) liberal feminism. C) momism. D) the civil rights movement.
How did some black legislators try to gain land for blacks?
A) They forced large property holders to give land to the state so that blacks could have it. B) They taxed large landowners at high rates so that they would have to sell some of their land. C) They never felt they had enough power to think about giving blacks land. D) They advocated violence as a way to gain land during Reconstruction.
In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called
a. continentalism. b. isolationism. c. American Super Imperialism. d. Divine Mandate. e. Manifest Destiny.
What was the political compromise made by Augustus in 23 B.C.E.?
a. He stopped dominating the position of consul, becoming a proconsul and tribune instead. b. He voluntarily relinquished his option of veto in the Senate. c. He agreed to maintain control of the legions only in Spain, Gaul, and Syria, and allowed the senate control of all others. d. He purposely refused the title of praetor to alleviate the worries of senators that he would become like Sulla. e. He offered to resign from all offices since he had stabilized the Republic.