Which of the following was a consequence of the Navigation Acts?
A. They gave Chesapeake planters a ready market for their staple crops.
B. They caused a depression in the fishing industry in the Middle Colonies.
C. They stimulated the colonial shipbuilding industry, especially in New England.
D. They had a negative economic impact on all of the colonies.
Answer: C
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A. remained unchanged. B. was altered by the Soviet Union's increased interest in increasing world tensions, especially with the militarily dangerous United Nations. C. was weakened by Mao Zedong's belief that, after Stalin's death, Mao's status as the most experienced Marxist ruler should make him the leading socialist. D. was destroyed by Mao's threat to occupy southeastern Siberia if the Soviet government continued to make, test, and store nuclear weapons there. E. improved because of a joint fear of the United States' ambitions in South Asia.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a. allowed African Americans to vote if their grandfather had been free. b. allowed otherwise ineligible voters to cast ballots if their grandfather had been eligible to vote. c. allowed African Americans freed prior to the Civil War to use white accommodations in public. d. restricted membership in black fraternal organizations to those whose grandfathers had been slaves.