What best explains the success of the Portuguese in building a maritime empire?
a. Guns and seamanship
b. Gold and faith
c. Portugal's growing population
d. Civil war in China
e. Spanish help
a
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All of the following are true of neocolonialism EXCEPT
A) High tariffs on Western goods. B) Few opportunities for education by non-Western people. C) Industrial complexes are owned by Westerners. D) Agriculture makes up a high proportion of the nation's gross national product. E) Unskilled labor in both rural and urban areas.
Cotton became important to the prosperity of the entire nation because
a. about three-fourths of the southern cotton crop was sold to New England textile mills. b. western merchants handled the shipping of southern cotton. c. it generated about half of the United States' export earnings after 1840. d. northern farmers profited from selling their foodstuffs to feed southern slaves. e. cotton futures had come to dominate investment and trading activity.
Some California women in the 1860s began to agitate for women's right to
a. divorce their husbands. b. own property in a marriage. c. vote. d. run for public office.
According to the introductory video in section 23.3, Franklin Roosevelt had a close personal relationship with __________
A) Winston Churchill B) Joseph Stalin C) Benito Mussolini D) Rosie the Riveter