How did the French Revolution further exacerbate sectional politics in the United States?
A) Republicans supported France's assault on monarchy; Federalists favored Britain and denounced the French as a "mobocracy."
B) Southerners favored Britain because they believed that the British offered the best potential market for southern agricultural exports.
C) Almost all Americans applauded the struggle because they hoped that the two nations would knock each other out and leave the United States as the premier nation in the Atlantic world.
D) New Englanders favored France because of the alliance signed during the American Revolution and because of their desire to see the French humiliate King George III.
E) New Englanders, southerners, and most residents of the Middle Atlantic states believed that the Washington administration's declaration of American neutrality was the only way to ensure the survival of their young republic.
A
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A) His program of Europeanization was predominantly technical and aimed at modernizing the military. B) His respect for Western governments led to increased powers for the representative assembly. C) His traditional, conservative attitude stripped away all previous social gains for women. D) His desire to teach Russians Western customs could not be enforced among the old-fashioned nobles. E) He rejected Westernization in favor of Orthodoxy.
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a. Buddhism b. Hinduism c. Confucianism d. Daoism
What was a key ideal of Greek aristocrats?
A. competition B. education C. public service D. the giving of alms
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A. his training in nuclear physics and his naval experience B. Ford's connection to Nixon and Carter's claim to be an "outsider" C. his conservative views on domestic and foreign issues D. being experienced in Washington politics