What was the tariff enacted after the War of 1812 primarily designed to do?

A) produce revenue for the federal treasury
B) reestablish traditional trade ties with Britain
C) protect America's industries from foreign competition
D) increase the volume of American trade


C

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Public pressure surrounding the Whitewater scandal forced the appointment of ________ as a special prosecutor

A) Bernard Shaw B) Janet Reno C) Burt Lance D) Kenneth W. Starr

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Wounded Knee occurred at ____________________ Reservation

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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What shipbuilding innovation of the fifteenth century yielded vessels that could bear heavier cargos?

A. plank-on-plank construction B. oarsmen in addition to square-rigged sails C. high-sided, broad-beamed vessels D. plank-on-frame construction

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The passage on the Skipwiths and John Hartwell Cocke reflects __________

a) the variety and complexity of master-slave relations b) the brutality of slaveholders in the antebellum South c) the decline of slavery in the American South in the 1850s d) the willingness of northern abolitionists to move violently to end slavery

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