The Pierce administration's secret scheme to gain control of Cuba was stopped when
a. Spain threatened a preemptive war against the United States.
b. the secret Ostend Manifesto was leaked to the public.
c. United States leaders signed the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.
d. Spain declared that it would abolish slavery in Cuba.
e. United States adventurers bungled their invasion.
b
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A. use the conflict as a means of establishing military positions in Spain. B. offer help to whichever side would repudiate any diplomatic contact with Hitler's regime. C. support Franco's regime. D. offer no help to either side. E. support the republican side.
A young George Washington successfully raided Fort Duquesne in the Ohio Valley
A) True B) False
What did the local health boards set up by Parliament in the middle of the nineteenth century tend to identify as the cause of the health problems of the urban poor?
A) lack of clean water supplies B) use of streets as open sewers C) weak moral fortitude of the poor D) pollution caused by paper mills
What motivated the French government to pursue the invention of canned food?
A. They wanted to strengthen their navy. B. They wanted to preserve wasted food from farms. C. They wanted to bring better nutrition to French citizens. D. The cost of bread was high, which put pressure on the navy to find other sources of nutrition for its sailors.