The Manhattan Project was the code name for __________
A) the D-Day invasion
B) rationing programs in the United States
C) the project to develop the atomic bomb
D) the American attack at Iwo Jima
Answer: C
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b. it was the most effective way to destroy opposition to the war. c. all the Allied and Central powers had already instituted the draft. d. the early American volunteers for the war proved to lack discipline, bravery, and competence. e. the U.S. government was unwilling to accept women into the armed forces.
To what was French historian Alexis de Tocqueville referring when he wrote, “it is possible to foresee that the freer the whites in America are, the more they will seek to isolate themselves”?
A) The more rights and liberties whites obtain, the less willing they are to share those rights with others such as African or Native Americans. B) Democracy breeds in people (white Americans especially) an isolationist attitude, causing them to eschew involvement in foreign affairs. C) As all whites gain rights and liberties despite social or economic status, they will be more willing to share those rights with nonwhites. D) In order to gain rights and liberties, whites must oppress others, namely African and Native Americans. E) Because white Americans are isolated from African and Native Americans, they do not see that they do not share the same rights and liberties.
How did the Navigation Acts of 1660 and 1663 shape England's colonial commerce?
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Which of the following was a goal of the Congregationalist Puritans who decided to establish a colony in North America?
a. They wanted to Christianize the Indians. b. They wanted to build a society based on freedom of religious expression. c. They wanted to establish a merchant-oriented society with trading ties to the major European nations. d. They wanted to complete their reform of the Church of England.