What was the importance of Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
A) won support for independence
B) discredited Tories
C) spurred boycotts of British goods
D) calmed anti-British feelings
E) promoted a French alliance
Answer: A
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What did Southern Alliance leader Charles Macune argue?
A) The federal government was to establish a series of branch banks to hold federal deposits and help to control the money supply. B) Late-nineteenth-century American capitalists attempted to corner all the silver that was held outside the federal treasury. C) Farmers should be able to store crops in government warehouses and then borrow against those crops until prices rose. D) Farmers should "raise less corn and more hell." E) The federal government should provide special agricultural loans from a fund created out of grain excise taxes.
Factors contributing to Rome's conquest of Italy include all the following EXCEPT
a. the absence of truly civilized, sophisticated opponents. b. a hunger for farmland as well as the dedication and skill of farmer-soldiers. c. the aristocratic value placed on glory and reputation. d. harsh military discipline. e. a willingness to accept former enemies as allies or citizens.
One of Stalin's key goals after the defeat of Germany and Japan was to
a. maintain friendly relations with the United States and Great Britain despite any conflicts of interest. b. expand Russian lands as far and wide as possible. c. support all national communist groups that were vying for postwar control of their countries. d. establish the Soviet Union as the world's most dominant naval power. e. establish a buffer zone to protect the Russian core of the Soviet Union from yet another invasion.
Over a million European colonists (from France, Italy and Spain) moved, in the 19th century, to
a. Morocco b. Tunisia c. Algeria d. Libya e. Egypt