Which of the following statements correctly identifies the Royal African Company?
a. This English company held a monopoly on all English trade with sub-Saharan Africa during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
b. This West African company consisted of representatives from all West African kingdoms and coordinated slave-catching raids into the African interior.
c. This West African company established the rules and regulations under which Europeans were allowed to trade with states along the Guinea coast.
d. This English company acted as the coordinator and licensing agent for all independent trading companies seeking to transport slaves to the English colonies.
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A. farmers in the North remained self-reliant and seldom participated in the emerging market economy B. more people in the North began to work for others in return for wages C. there seemed to be few economic differences between the North and the South D. the United States was immediately flooded with foreign imports, thus pushing many newly emerging domestic industries into bankruptcy
What was the economic motivation behind Richard Nixon's détente?
A. opening Eastern Europe as a market for American exports B. reducing the military budget C. creating trading relations with NATO countries allied with the Soviets D. lowering tariffs to allow Americans to purchase Soviet imports
Which of the following is not true about the higher education institutions for freedmen?
A) ?Higher education was offered in the form of seminaries, colleges, and normal schools. B) It was founded by northern charitable organizations and biracial missionary societies. C) ?Among these institutions were Hampton Institute, Howard University, and Fisk University D) ?None of the institutions were located in the South. E) ?None of these are correct.
President Johnson opposed escalating the war in the fall of 1964 because
A. insurgent aggression in South Vietnam had abated as a result of a Communist peace offensive. B. his political position was sufficiently secure that he could reject a military escalation. C. the establishment of a sufficiently stable government in South Vietnam rendered that course unnecessary. D. he believed that the South Vietnamese government was far too weak to handle an expanded war at that time.