In an effort to reach the Indies, Spain looked westward because
a. Portugal controlled the African coast.
b. the Pope granted Spain the right to sail this route.
c. Muslims blocked the sea route.
d. the Moors had convinced them to do so.
e. African tribes constantly menaced the European ships traveling along the coast.
a
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Samuel Townes's failure as a cotton planter in Alabama in the 1830s demonstrates __________.
A. New England's stranglehold on the cotton market B. the undeveloped state of community among cotton planters C. the constant danger of slave rebellion D. his lack of experience in the cotton business
The headright system
A) ?was established initially in Maryland. B) ?encouraged entire families to migrate to the New World. C) granted religious freedom to all Christians in Virginia.? D) ?granted an additional fifty acres of land for each additional person brought to the Virginia Colony by those who had paid for their own passage. E) ?None of these are correct.
Radical critics of the New Deal were silenced after 1934
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
President Grover Cleveland responded to the 1894 Pullman strike by
a. offering to serve as a mediator. b. remaining uninvolved and doing nothing. c. intervening on the side of labor. d. intervening on the side of management.