Trace the events that led to the war with Mexico. How did American actions contribute to the outbreak of war? How did Mexican actions contribute?
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The Hawaiian Islands became a strategically important territory for the United States government by the 1850s for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) it was necessary to secure Honolulu as a coaling station for U.S. steamshipsâ€"merchant vessels and warshipsâ€"on their way to trade with China and Japan. B) British and French economic and military influence in the Pacific made it necessary to protect Hawaii from a possible British or French takeover of Hawaii and, thereby, reducing American influence. C) the U.S. government was committed to preventing alcohol, gambling, prostitution, and disease from undermining the independence and moral integrity of native Hawaiians. D) many Protestant missionaries and merchants from America had become a significant presence in Hawaii, and their churches, schools, and commercial properties required protection of the U.S. government and U.S. Navy from a British or French takeover or a native Hawaiian uprising.
In the 1980s, for the first time in the post-World War II era,
a. income gaps widened between the richest and the poorest Americans. b. middle-class incomes rose. c. the poor made economic gains. d. the economy stopped growing. e. the majority of Americans were middle class.
The "city beautiful" movement in the United States was inspired, in part, by
A. None of these answers is correct. B. the new technology of skyscrapers. C. the economic depression of 1893. D. both the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and the new technology of skyscrapers. E. the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
The Five Power Treaty set a ten-year moratorium on battleship construction and limited the guns that ships could carry
A) True B) False