Which of the following is true of the economic relationship between the United States and Mexico by 1910?
a. American capitalists owned Mexico's railroads and mines.
b. Porfirio Diaz had begun to nationalize American investments in Mexico.
c. American investors had begun to divest themselves of their business interests because of violent, antiAmerican demonstrations.
d. Mexico had ceased to be an economic satellite of the United States.
a
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What explains the rather liberal divorce laws that California passed in the mid-nineteenth century?
a. The new state legislature borrowed from Mexican law, which allowed women and men equal access to divorce. b. Because of the gender ratio in the state at that time, it benefited men to allow women to divorce because it created a larger pool of unmarried women. c. Women gained the right to vote in California in the 1860s, and they made sure that a more liberal divorce law was passed. d. California's divorce law was unusual at first, but other states quickly followed suit as women gained political strength during the second half of the nineteenth century.
What was the main purpose of the Continental Association formed at the First Continental Congress?
a. to foster improved relations between the various colonies b. to seek a conservative, peaceful resolution of the political crises of the mid-1770s c. to raise money to feed starving Indians displaced by western settlements d. to maintain a total boycott of all British imports e. to raise and equip armies to fight for the American cause
What was the result of Republican campaigns for public education in the South during the Reconstruction period?
A. Very few blacks had the opportunity to attend school. B. Literacy rates rose sharply across the South. C. Southern schools had the same funding as northern schools. D. The South desegregated its public schools.