Under the Platt Amendment,
A) America promised it would not acquire the Philippines as a result of the Spanish-American War.
B) Cuba was forced to promise to grant naval bases to America and to avoid treaties with any foreign power which might compromise its independence.
C) America promised to grant independence to the Philippines by 1925.
D) Cuba promised to allow American businesses to do as they wished.
B
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A. training of tradesmen and other aspects of a specific trade B. local laws and customs in a town C. relations between a town and feudal lords D. collection of taxes
Most workers in the earliest textile factories were
A) women and children. B) former hand spinners and hand weavers. C) immigrants. D) displaced farmers.
Political conservatives shared with romantics
a. faith in the unique power and value of the individual imagination. b. devotion to the principle of equality before the law. c. anti-Semitism. d. veneration of the past. e. the rejection of the past.
Which of the following was not a provision the Treaty of Versailles required Germany to follow?
A. It had to reduce its army to 100,000. B. It did not have to take full responsibility for starting the war if it agreed to land concessions. C. It had to return Alsace and Lorraine to France. D. Certain German land was established as a demilitarized zone and stripped of armaments and fortifications. E. It had to pay reparations to Allied governments.