Why did Spain close the Mississippi River to American navigation in 1784?
a. The United States had not agreed to honor its wartime debt to Spain.
b. Spain was determined to prevent the expansion of the United States.
c. Spain was attempting to pressure the United States into accepting boundary concessions in the area betweenthe United States and Spanish Florida
d. The United States had attempted to wrest Florida from Spain.
b
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Radical Republican leaders in Congress included
a. Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner. b. William Seward and Edwin M. Stanton. c. Charles Sumner and William Seward. d. Alexander Stephens and Thaddeus Stevens. e. Oliver O. Howard and Hiram Revels.
What did Henry George argue in Progress and Poverty?
A) that industrialization was the key to progress and the end of poverty. B) that socialism was the answer to the end of poverty. C) that industrialization had led to a great deal of misery. D) that the government needed to fight poverty by limiting industrialization. E) that the government should tax the "unearned increment" of rising land prices and use the funds to ameliorate the misery caused by industrialization.
In the late twentieth century, which of the following religious movements was the biggest in the world?
a. non-denominational religions b. Islamic and Christian fundamentalism c. "New Age" religions d. political religions like Scientology
Identify a true statement about the Seneca Falls Convention
A) It aimed primarily at securing the vote for African American men. B) It advocated the return of Irish immigrants back to Ireland. C) It adopted a Declaration of Sentiments. D) It led to the culmination of the Civil War. E) It led to the formation of the nation of Liberia.