The Peace Corps was established in order to
A) send trained volunteers abroad to teach modern methods of birth control.
B) provide diplomatic assistance to end civil wars in developing countries.
C) help developing countries industrialize.
D) send dedicated Americans abroad to work with people at the grassroots level.
Answer: D
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A. payment for slaves in gold in Africa prior to the Middle Passage. B. payment for slaves in the Americas with sugar-based products to be taken back to Europe. C. payment for slave ships in Europe to go to Africa. D. exchange of slaves for passage of cargo and colonists from Europe to America. E. None of these.
After the Dorr Rebellion in the early 1840s, the state government of Rhode Island
A) accepted John Dorr as its governor B) accepted the Dorrite constitution C) drafted a new, more democratic, constitution D) decided to let women vote in state elections
Woodrow Wilson believed that U.S. economic expansion should be accompanied by __________.
A. political domination B. democratic principles and Christianity C. military force and naval power D. American bureaucratic know-how
All of the following countries were under Soviet control through the Warsaw Pact except
A) Yugoslavia. B) East Germany. C) Hungary. D) Poland. E) Czechoslovakia.