The United States overthrew the regime of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 because Arbenz
A) invaded British Honduras.
B) sought to nationalize its extensive oil holdings.
C) had demanded another term as president.
D) had expropriated properties of the United Fruit Company, a U.S. firm.
D
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Hegel's notion of dialectic is best defined as
A) a variation on Plato's themes of dominant and submissive ideas. B) counterpoints of the same argument. C) the conflict within ones rational mind to act or to remain stagnant. D) the conflict of opposing ideas, a thesis and an antithesis. E) the contradiction between reason and intuition.
Henry Clay’s American system envisioned _________
A) the triumph of the Monroe Doctrine B) the end of the canal boom C) rapid Indian removal D) a strong federal role in the economy E) the demise of slavery
As it prospered, the early Roman Empire
A. saw trade and manufacturing become significantly more important than agriculture. B. eliminated the practice of slavery. C. required people in the entire empire to speak Latin. D. saw the supply of gold and silver coins decrease in the eastern part of the empire. E. saw the development of a large gap between rich and poor.
Blacks in the South were not totally disfranchised or segregated until
A) Cleveland gave his approval in 1887. B) southern states enacted literacy tests and poll taxes in the 1890s. C) Radical Reconstruction ended in 1877. D) the Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875.