How did American merchants respond to the Molasses Act of 1733?
a. They gave up on trade with any nation other than Britain, as a show of obedience to the crown.
b. They withheld their exports to Britain in protest, foreshadowing the rebellion to come.
c. They took the opportunity it afforded them to sell more molasses to the French West Indies.
d. They used bribery and smuggling to get around the law.
e. They used the subsidies it provided to invest in sugar growing in the Deep South.
d
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a. prohibited antislavery demonstrations and protests. b. denied fleeing slaves a trial by jury. c. forced slaves to be returned to masters. d. confined those who aided escaping slaves to house arrest e. None of these choices are correct.
The Bay of Pigs invasion was the brainchild of
a. the Eisenhower Administration. b. the Kennedy administration. c. ousted Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. d. revolutionaries Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. e. the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
A. advocated a union of Arabs, Turks, and East Africans in the "cross-continent state of sharing." B. never deviated from Begin’s policies. C. has taken a tough position in negotiating with Palestinians. D. was able, with the aid of President Richard Nixon, to work out a partial peace with Palestinians. E. has helped the peace process with Palestine move forward.
Justice Frank Murphy cited each of the following in his dissent from Korematsu v. United States EXCEPT that
A) unless martial law has been declared, the norms of civilian government should apply. B) all persons of Japanese descent were loyal to the United States. C) forced relocation was not only unconstitutional but racist as well. D) examples of individual disloyalty do not prove group guilt. E) relocation was consistent with the policies of the nations we were fighting.