Why did the British Crown retain the tea tax when the Townshend Acts were repealed?
a. The beverage was so popular, Britain was sure people would pay the tax.
b. The money was needed to support British troops in America.
c. The tea tax kept alive the principle of parliamentary taxation.
d. The colonists had hoped to benefit from the revenues it generated.
e. The British East India Company insisted that the tax continue.
c
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What do we know about the sources of the witchcraft hysteria in Salem?
a. They are known to have been primarily economic. b. They reflected the community's underlying resistance to the teachings of Calvinism. c. They lay in the community's dislike of English authority. d. They are a subject of debate among historians. e. They may have been related to the presence of real witches.
President Cleveland's solution to the receding gold supply was successful
A. but his public image was damaged by the association with a "robber baron." B. and served to strengthen his public image. C. but his public image was damaged by the perceived dependency on foreign investment. D. and guaranteed his candidacy for the next presidential election.
What were the causes of the Taiping rebellion? What was the outcome?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following statements about early Buddhism in China is most accurate?
a) the chines imposed some of their own values on Buddhism such as the importance of maintaining families and political loyalty to the state b) the Indian Buddhist who entered China separated themselves from Chines traditions and established regional communities that remained independent of the Chines state c) chines buddhism bore no resemblance to Indian Buddhism d) Daoists saw the emergence of Chines buddhism as an opportunity to overthrow the fundamental trend in China toward confucianism