What development led Rio de Janeiro to become a major port?
A) gold mining
B) a wave of immigration
C) the discovery of silver
D) coffee plantations
A
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President Jimmy Carter's most spectacular foreign-policy achievement was the
a. Panama Canal Treaty. b. Helsinki accords. c. Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt. d. SALT II Treaty. e. Iran hostage release.
Latin Europe innovated these ideas as degree-granting corporations imparting both religious and nonreligious knowledge
a. madrasas b. museums c. monasteries d. universities e. guilds
As president, James K. Polk
A. won congressional approval for the annexation of Texas. B. convinced the British government to divide Oregon at the 54°40? parallel. C. wanted war with Britain to resolve the Oregon dispute. D. refused the Texas claim to territory that included much of modern New Mexico. E. None of these answers is correct.
What was the significance of the Big Bonanza in 1873?
A) It made Henry Comstock the richest man in the world. B) It was the largest wheat farm on the Great Plains. C) It was discovered near Pike’s Peak in California. D) It was the richest discovery in the history of mining. E) It indirectly led to an uprising of Sioux Indians.