Fighting ended during the War for Independence when a combined U.S. and French force compelled the British to surrender at Yorktown in 1781
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer: TRUE
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What made Jay's Treaty controversial?
A) It ended the British practice of impressments by promising to look the other way at Britain's. B) It arranged for withdrawal of British troops from American soil, and granted access to British West Indies markets but only by bargaining away US rights to load cargoes of sugar, molasses and coffee from the French during wartime. C) It reopened the French West Indies trade to American ships but closed lucrative markets in the British West Indies. D) It won recognition of the thirty-first parallel as the United States' southern boundary but required the U.S. to relinquish its rights to Louisiana. E) It settled the issue of compensation for slaves taken during the Revolution at less than half their actual value.
Which of the following contributed to the Spanish American War?
A) ?Civil war in Cuba B) ?Interference of Joseph Pulitzer C) ?The sinking of the Lusitania D) ?The independence of Panama from Colombia
Continuing strong political and economic influence by former colonial powers in their former colonies is known as
a. Capitalism b. Multinationalism c. Globalization d. Neocolonialism e. Imperialism
In early 1866, when states undertook to vote on the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the amendment was ________________.
A. supported by President Johnson. B. rejected by all Southern legislatures except Tennessee's. C. approved by the Southern states and then withdrawn by Congress. D. supported by prominent women's rights activists but received little additional support.