During the years after the conquest of Mexico, Spain’s chief interest in the New World was in
a. using the Americas as an outlet for surplus population.
b. converting the Indians to Protestantism.
c. finding and seizing gold and silver.
d. developing farming land.
e. all of these choices.
ANS: C
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A) prosperity and individual freedoms. B) encouragement of artistic experimentation. C) increasing cultural regimentation. D) promotion of modernism in art. E) small peasant farms that were forced to sell to the state.
By the time of the Civil War, most southern slaves worked on plantations and farms.
a. true b. false
During the Civil War, "greenbacks" issued by the federal government
A. steadily gained in value as the war progressed. B. were backed by silver. C. were backed by gold and silver. D. fluctuated in value depending on the fortunes of the Northern armies. E. were backed by gold.
Historians use the term caesaropapism to refer to the
A. bureaucratic revolution brought about by Julius Caesar. B. attempt by later Roman emperors to abolish the papacy. C. system in which the emperor has a mixture of political and religious authority. D. European struggle between church and state. E. split between the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches.