After rounding the Cape of Good Hope, Vasco de Gama sailed toward
a. Brazil.
b. India.
c. Portugal.
d. Japan.
e. Safavid Iran.
b
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The Intolerable Acts were passed by Parliament to punish:
A) Williamsburg and the Virginia House of Burgesses. B) Philadelphia and the other Atlantic ports that restricted imports. C) Ben Franklin and other popular colonial leaders. D) Boston and the colony of Massachusetts.
Antiwar liberals opposed American participation in the war for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A. their conviction that war and military action was morally wrong under any circumstances. B. their conviction that America had betrayed its bedrock principles by supporting a corrupt and repressive regime in South Vietnam. C. their belief that the employment of weapons such as napalm was inhumane. D. their conclusion that U.S. escalation violated a number of international agreements including the United Nations Charter and the 1954 Geneva Accords. E. their doubts in the validity of the domino theory on which the Johnson Administration justified intervention.
Who clubbed Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in response to the controversy over Bleeding Kansas?
a) Preston Brooks b) Dred Scott c) John Brown d) Millard Fillmore
President Woodrow Wilson's request to Congress for a declaration of war
A. came before Germany took any military action against the United States. B. was passed without a dissenting vote. C. was nearly voted down in the Senate. D. was supported by Republicans but opposed by most in Wilson's own party. E. called on the United States' responsibility to help secure a future of peace, justice, and self-governance.