One of the issues of economic imbalance in Latin America was
a. the monopoly of land by the wealthy elite
b. government protection of the landed elite in seizing common lands.
c. increase of debt peonage
d. landowners grew crops for export while the masses lacked land to grow food staples.
e. all of these.
a
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a. it bred a fanaticism that led people to commit crimes in the name of religion. b. its doctrines were not being supported by the monarchs of Europe. c. it was internally divided, which led to political divisions among countries. d. it served to turn the population into mindless followers.
Macon's Bill No. 2
a. re-opened trade with all nations except Britain and France. b. required that if either Britain or France lifted its commercial restrictions on American trade, the United States would stop trading with the other. c. forbade American trade with Britain and France but promised to re-open trade with whichever of the two nations first honored neutral rights. d. repealed the Embargo Act of 1807. e. demonstrated American economic strength in dealing with the European powers.
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a.the merchants were known as factors. b.the trading posts made the goods there in makeshift factories. c.the African slaves built factories along the coast to manufacture guns. d.the slave traders called their system a labor factory. e.that is how the Africans translated “trading post.”
The First Battle of Bull Run dealt a severe blow to Union morale and dispelled the illusion that the war would be a short one.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)