Mercantilists believed that a country could accumulate gold and silver by buying more goods from other countries than it sold to them
a. true
b. false
Ans: b. false
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A) The nobles B) The merchants C) The artisans D) The peasants E) The clergy
Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because
a. the Indians were assimilating too easily into white society. b. the Supreme Court ruled that Indians could not be American citizens. c. whites wanted the Indians' lands. d. the Indians were proving unable to adopt European ways. e. the Indians were waging warfare on white settlements.
Unlike the Ottoman Empire, the Safavid Empire embraced Sunni Islam.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The failure of the Albany Plan can be attributed, primarily, to the ________
A) opposition of French authorities B) fiscal jealousies of colonial assemblies C) beginning of the French and Indian War D) refusal of the Iroquois tribes to support it E) lack of interest from colonial representatives