When war broke out in Europe in 1914, America
a. agreed to support Great Britain.
b. was ready to plunge right in.
c. was in the middle of a booming economy.
d. did little trade business with Germany.
e. was weighed down by an economic recession.
e
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Due to Cold War fears, the United States
a. urged Japan to develop an army of twenty divisions after the outbreak of the Korean War. b. acquiesced when the Japanese government established an organized labor movement. c. established large military bases in China and Singapore in the late 1960s. d. backed away from its policy of breaking up the zaibatsu. e. urged the Japanese navy to patrol the Formosa Straits.
Black Americans were unwelcome as members of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
a. true b. false
Which one of the following statements accurately describes Texas agriculture during this period?
A. The boll weevil seriously harmed the cotton crop in most of these years, costing farmers millions of dollars. B. Industrial production easily surpassed agricultural production in total value by 1914. C. Most farmers abandoned cotton cultivation because of low prices and switched to other crops like rice and wheat. D. Most farm operators were subsistence farmers who avoided commercial agriculture.
What new avenue of economic expansion opened as a result of the War of 1812?
a. Americans started to make more textiles. b. America became the center of the slave trade. c. Cotton production expanded into Florida. d. British troops provided a market for American-made goods.