San Francisco continued to play a role in the mining industry through all of the following activities except
a. It served as the financial center of mining throughout the West.
b. The increasingly important role of technological expertise in mining encouraged the growth of higher education institutions in the city to educate mining engineers.
c. The city merchants continued to supply miners even after the initial Gold Rush in California subsided.
d. San Francisco bankers used their financial clout to centralize economic decision-making in the city and to introduce more productive technologies.
b
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What will be an ideal response?
As a result of British trade policies after American independence,
A) ?American merchants were able to carry out lucrative trade with the French West Indies. B) ?British ports in the West Indies were closed to American ships. C) ?Congress exercised tight control over American trade policy. D) ?the United States achieved a trade surplus. E) ?Americans were able to keep valuable specie within the United States.
Which sentence best characterizes the creole languages that developed among slaves in some parts of the South in the seventeenth century?
A) Creole languages were a mixture of English and different African languages. B) Creole languages were a mixture of different African languages with no English. C) Creole languages were a mixture of French, English, and Dutch languages. D) Creole languages were written versions of African languages. E) Creole languages were informal, colloquial versions of English.
Why was the Eisenhower Doctrine implemented?
A. to offer only diplomatic assistance in any international disputes B. to promise to use nuclear weapons against Soviet hostilities C. to pledge nonintervention in any revolutions worldwide D. to utilize military forces in the containment of communism