Which statement best describes the place of New France (Canada) in the burgeoning French Empire of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
a. It was given highest priority as a source of much-needed timber and valuable beaver furs.
b. It was seen as a strategic way station to more valuable colonies in the East Indies.
c. It was expendable, not worth defending from British encroachment.
d. It was a critical safety valve for easing religious tensions in France through emigration.
e. It was secondary to the sugar-rich island colonies in the Caribbean.
e
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A. a third B. more than half C. a tiny proportion D. a tenth
When colonists protested the Stamp Tax with the cry "no taxation without representation," George Grenville argued that
A) each member of Parliament, regardless of his residence, represented all colonists in the empire. B) colonists, through their agents in London, were represented in Parliament. C) the colonists were adequately represented in their own colonial assemblies. D) Parliament could tax the colonists even though they were not represented in the House of Commons.
The Second Continental Congress of revolutionary days
a. operated with strong constitutional authority. b. functioned as a Revolutionary tribunal with direct authority over citizens and the army. c. shared equal authority with the states. d. was little more than a conference of ambassadors from independent states with very limited power. e. was most effective in developing a banking and currency system.
Of all the major Zhou philosophical schools, which did Li Si and Qin dynasty despise the most?
a. Legalism b. Confucianism c. Rhetoricians d. Buddhists e. Daoists