The South lagged behind the North in urbanization and industrialization before the Civil War because:
A) it was completely dependent on slavery.
B) it had no stable government.
C) it was completely isolated from the neighboring regions.
D) it had corrupt government officials.
E) it preferred traditional methods of trade.
A
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As a result of extensive contact with European colonizers during the early eighteenth century, Native American tribes of the interior
A) altered patterns of tribal life and leadership. B) adopted the white man's culture and religion. C) benefited from commercial trade and development. D) abandoned hunting for subsistence agriculture.
According to the text, which of the following were closely related?
A. warfare in West Africa and the economic development of the American Atlantic seaboard B. warfare in Latin America and the political development of the Ohio River valley C. warfare in Eastern Europe and the political development of the American colonies D. warfare in Western Europe and the economic development of the slave trade in the Arabian Sea E. the spread of Islam and the growth of the slave trade
The Dutch state combined all the following EXCEPT
a. the most innovative commercial and financial practices in Europe. b. a unique urban and capitalist cultural milieu. c. a well-defined republican government with the head of the House of Orange as limited monarch. d. wide tolerance and the richest society in Europe. e. a rich and politically engaged bourgeoisie.
In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
A. Japanese troops attacked the Philippines. B. President Franklin Roosevelt ordered Japan's diplomats to leave Washington. C. the Japanese developed a new, unbreakable communication code. D. President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States. E. Japan tried to repair relations with the United States in order to restore their flow of supplies.