During the War of 1812, the Hartford Convention
A. aimed to create a new political party, called the Whigs.
B. sought to strengthen the political influence of the South and the West.
C. proved to be futile and irrelevant.
D. was a gathering of strong supporters of the war.
E. saw its participants vote to secede from the United States.
C
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a. Arab merchants. b. Chinese immigrants. c. central African slaves. d. the Ghanaian army. e. Italian mercenaries.
Due to Cold War fears, the United States
a. urged Japan to develop an army of twenty divisions after the outbreak of the Korean War. b. acquiesced when the Japanese government established an organized labor movement. c. established large military bases in China and Singapore in the late 1960s. d. backed away from its policy of breaking up the zaibatsu. e. urged the Japanese navy to patrol the Formosa Straits.
The steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of
a. Jay Gould. b. Henry Bessemer. c. J.P. Morgan d. Thomas Edison. e. Alexander Graham Bell.
Which of these countries experienced the Prague Spring in 1968?
A) Poland B) Czechoslovakia C) Slovenia D) Hungary