Which New World commodity was of the greatest value to the Spanish monarchy?
a. Potato
b. Tomato
c. Silver
d. Sugar
e. Quinine
Answer: c. Silver
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Which of the following was not a factor in the complacency of organized labor in the 1950s?
A) Labor received decent wages and benefits packages. B) Workers enjoyed shorter work weeks. C) Many unionized workers saw themselves as comfortable members of the middle class. D) The number of white collar employees surpassed blue-collar workers. E) More white-collar workers joined unions.
Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
a. called for the North to secede from the Union. b. formed a new political party. c. organized bands of men who raided the Deep South and freed slaves. d. refused to send emigrants to Kansas on the grounds that it was "tainted soil."
Indian policy of the U.S. during most of the 1870s consisted of
A. a relatively peaceful time of observing treaties. B. general neglect in favor of a focus on industrial development. C. expanding reservations into the plains to appease Cheyenne and Apache demands. D. clearing the southern plains by shooting any Indians in sight.
Political instability and armed conflict in which of the following nations offered the first pivotal test of the Kennedy administration's new national security strategy of flexible response?
(A) Cuba (B) Laos (C) Vietnam (D) Thailand (E) Cambodia