Points of controversy between the United States and Mexico in 1845-1846 included
a. damage claims by American citizens against the Mexican government.
b. the immigration of Mormons into Mexican territory.
c. exclusion of Mexico from the Oregon boundary settlement.
d. the refusal of the Mexican government to receive President Polk's envoy, John Slidell, and consider President Polk's offer to purchase California from Mexico.
e. American annexation of Texas.
a, d, e
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a. trade and religion b. sin and sinners c. blacks and other non-whites d. tolerance and diversity
The figures on page 516 can best be used to support the authors' contention that
A) clothing was very expensive. B) women spent their money on nonessentials. C) women could live on very little. D) the money typically made by women would not cover their expenses.
Which of the following cities became a major colonial manufacturing center?
a. Luxor b. Timbuktu c. Ulan Bator d. Batavia e. Chittenango
The Great Depression affected racial minorities more severely than other groups because racial minorities __________
A) were the first to be fired and last to be hired B) had more heavily speculated in the stock market C) had invested more in small, failing banks D) were excluded from recognition by the government in the New Deal plans E) were generally poor at the start of the Great Depression, so they sank even further into poverty and did not know how to cope with it