During the 1840s free black pioneers traveled to which new area of settlement?
A) the Old Northwest
B) Oregon
C) Florida
D) the Bahamas
Answer: B
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After the sinking of the Lusitania, how did Britain and France have a temporary advantage?
A) The German surface fleet was confined to port. B) Allied sonar was developed for detecting U-boats. C) Wilson declared that no American ships would cross the Atlantic. D) Germany lost its ability to move troops by sea. E) the United States immediately entered the war.
Brutal insensitivity to the needs of indigenous peoples was a hallmark of expansionism; which of the following is not true?
A) The letter from Chief Montwhiwa to Queen Victoria was ignored. B) Large tracts of land in the French Congo was seized and administrated by private rubber companies. C) Leopold II mercilessly exploited the Congo, systematically torturing and killing its people. D) British-led forces slaughtered 20,000 Sudanese at the Battle of Omdurman. E) An uprising in southwest Africa against German rule led to the killing of approximately 60,000 Herero people.
Why did Truman authorize the use of the atomic bomb against Japan?
A) He believed it would shorten the war and save lives. B) He didn't want to waste the billions spent on developing the bomb. C) He wanted to punish the Japanese by killing as many of them as possible. D) He had no idea it would yield such devastation. E) He didn't believe the Japanese would surrender until their emperor was dead.