Which of the following best explains why the number of Chinese people living in the United States declined dramatically between 1890 and 1920?
A) the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act
B) political turmoil in China
C) economic hard times in the United States
D) the forced deportation of Asian Americans
A
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A) the German invasion of Belgium. B) a desire to plunder on the continent. C) the desire to maintain world power. D) fear of German intentions in France. E) anxiety concerning a possible German invasion of Britain.
Beginning in the 1540s, the position of the indigenous population in Spanish America improved because
a. the crown established the encomiendas. b. crown officials assumed authority over the population. c. Spanish control waned. d. prices rose in Europe. e. plantations were introduced.
The 1978 agreement between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin occurred at
a. Jerusalem's Wailing Wall. b. Camp David in the United States. c. Geneva in neutral Switzerland. d. the Palace of Versailles outside of Paris. e. the West Bank.
During the second Cleveland administration, the United States sided with Venezuela over ________ in a boundary dispute.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).