The English colonies in North America
a. were promoted and founded by private enterprise.
b. were conceived, promoted, and founded by the Crown.
c. were governed much like the Spanish colonies to the south.
d. provided a special place for the Catholic Church.
e. all of these choices.
ANS: A
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A) The United States needed the land to conduct nuclear operations. B) The fertile soil of Alaska would prove beneficial for America's agricultural industry. C) The United States needed more land for expansion. D) The long coastline of Alaska would improve trade relations with neighboring countries. E) The United States needed a sea-link to Russia.
The Mexican War resulted in large part from
A. Texas citizens staging an attack by Mexican forces. B. Texas citizens attacking Mexican forces. C. the United States provoking Mexico to fight. D. Mexico provoking the United States to fight. E. Mexican forces attacking Americans in California.
Which of the following statements does not apply to the late nineteenth century relationship between the southern agrarian protest movement and southern attitudes toward blacks?
A) Some Populists wanted to build an interracial movement and tried to defend the rights of blacks. B) Most southern populists were anti-black. C) The white elite tried to inflame agrarian racism and stimulate urban black sentiment against agrarian radicalism. D) Some Populists denounced lynchings and the convict-lease system E) The Populist movement was exclusively white because of exclusion provisions in their charters.
Population growth in the Middle Colonies can largely be attributed to
A. migration from New England. B. high fertility and low mortality rates. C. immigrants from Scotland and Ireland. D. elevated slave importation.