When placed in charge of her father's Carolina plantation, Eliza Lucas pioneered a cash crop that became a major trading staple of the British Empire. What was that crop?
A) hemp B) rice C) indigo D) tobacco
C
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After the Second World War, why did American planners seek a world economy based on free trade and the speedy reconstruction of Germany, Japan, and other nations?
A. They believed these policies would allow the United States to aid the impoverished masses in the newly emerging nation states. B. They believed these policies would give the United States the military prowess it needed to overthrow the Soviet government. C. They believed these policies would help enhance the prestige of the United States-backed United Nations. D. They believed that both the economic well-being and the security of the United States depended on these policies.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, what led the Japanese to consider how to control and integrate foreign learning (especially from China and Europe)?
a. Foreign powers forced Japan to modernize by adopting "modern" science and culture. b. Earlier, foreign ideas rarely traveled beyond coastal regions, but by the eighteenth century, expanded networks of exchange facilitated their spread throughout the country. c. Members of middle class idealized foreign culture, leading the shoguns to fear that learning about Enlightenment ideals might lead the merchants to overthrow the emperor. d. Before the seventeenth century, Japan had not come into contact with foreign ideas or culture.
What did the phrase “running the Negroes” mean in the context of the Civil War?
a. removing slaves from the path of Union troops to make it harder for the slaves to escape b. forcing infirm and elderly slaves to leave a plantation so that they did not deplete the plantation’s dwindling provisions c. encouraging slaves to escape to Union lines in order to gain their freedom d. sending large groups of male slaves to the front to provide logistical assistance to the Confederate army
The mastermind of the 1995 Riyadh bombing and the bombing of the destroyer U.S.S Cole was _______________.
A. Yasir Arafat B. Saddam Hussein C. Osama bin Laden D. Ali-Hassan al-Majid