In the early 1900s, the United Fruit Company
a. owned more than one-half of the property in Mexico and dominated Mexican political life.
b. became a dominant economic and political force in Central America.
c. opposed expansionism in the hope of preserving a market for domestically produced agricultural products.
d. operated primarily out of Europe, where it had invested over $100 million.
b
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Concluding that free black people could not exist peacefully under English rule, Menendez led the people of Mose to:
A) Cuba. B) Haiti. C) Spain. D) Portugal.
The early mechanization of the cloth industry
A) increased both the volume and price of its goods. B) supplemented rather than replaced home manufacturing. C) occurred primarily in the South. D) seldom saw women or children employed as laborers.
The Japanese fought in World War I due to their
A. desire to acquire German colonies in Asia. B. fear of America entering into China. C. long-standing Franco-Japanese alliance. D. anger over German atrocities against Chinese civilians. E. concern over Austrian colonial aspirations in the Pacific.
Most new textile workers in the South were
A. young, single, African American males. B. poor and white. C. middle-class whites. D. young women.