Japan was first forced open by
a. Lord Macartney.
b. Commodore Matthew C. Perry.
c. the Meiji Emperor.
d. the Tokugawa shoguns.
e. the Russo-Japanese War.
b
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After two major wars, the Romans cited a technical breach of the peace to spitefully destroy __________.
A. Athens B. Carthage C. Gaul D. Etruria
The term "ethnic cleansing" is associated with the tragedy in which occurred in
a. the Czech Republic, with the breakup of Czechoslovakia. b. Bosnia, during the breakup of Yugoslavia. c. Poland, with the overthrow of the Communist government by Solidarity. d. the Ukraine, with the atomic explosion at Chernobyl. e. East Germany, with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Why did colonists object to the Tea Act?
a) It raised the tax on tea so much as to make tea prohibitively expensive. b) By paying it, they would be acknowledging Great Britain's right to tax the colonists. c) It granted a monopoly, and the colonists opposed all forms of monopoly. d) The British East India Company made inferior tea, and colonists preferred not to drink it.
Venustiano Carranza, a moderate bourgeois revolutionary, believed in women's "natural inequality," but he
A) joined with the Catholic Church to oppose women's civil and political equality. B) supported a constitutional amendment to enfranchise women. C) vetoed a law that gave women equal rights to exercise guardianship and child custody, file lawsuits, and sign contracts. D) sought their support by legalizing divorce, establishing alimony, and authorizing women to own and manage property.