What was the reason for issuing the Monroe Doctrine?
a. To stop competing cotton interests in Latin America
b. To use the principal of Manifest Destiny to expand into South America.
c. To prevent further European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
d. To allow the US to use newly independent Latin American countries for raw materials in industrialization.
e. To allow American bounty hunters to have jurisdiction in Latin America over runaway slaves.
c
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The Aztecs offered human sacrifices almost every week to Huitzilopochtli. They believed that doing so would
a) create a glorious maize harvest. b) cause the females to bear more boys fit to be warriors. c) cause weakness in their enemies. d) make them invincible. e) make them victorious in battle.
After the 1920 elections, Republicans controlled the presidency __________
A) only B) and the House of Representatives only C) and the Senate only D) and both houses of Congress
Goods coming from the American colonies such as tobacco and beaver furs that were involved in triangle trade were known as __________
A) raw materials B) luxury goods C) manufactured goods D) cash crops
In 1890, the American electorate rejected ________
A) Democratic legislative activism by crushing the party in the congressional elections B) Republican legislative activism by crushing the party in the congressional elections C) both major parties by electing many third-party, especially Populist candidates D) Republican passiveness by crushing the party in the congressional elections E) Democratic passiveness by crushing the party in the congressional elections