The significance of the Battle of Saratoga was that it:
A) removed the Indian tribes from the fighting.
B) demonstrated the impairment of having the seasoned French officer the Marquis de Lafayette on the side of the patriots.
C) let the colonists know that winning the war might not take a very long time.
D) convinced several European countries, most importantly France, to join the patriots in their fight against Britain.
E) maintained the patriots' hopes for freedom, even though they lost the battle.
D
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The Freedmen's Bureau and the "black Republican" governments both
A) devoted much energy and money to public education for former slaves. B) found Andrew Johnson to be among their strongest supporters. C) overlooked the importance of political rights and power for former slaves. D) focused only on projects that aided former slaves.
How did the question of self-identification become problematic under the guest worker program in Europe?
What will be an ideal response?
Louis Brandeis convinced Woodrow Wilson to center his 1912 presidential campaign on which issue?
a. Big business b. Foreign policy c. Conservation d. Women's suffrage
In the end, Portugal was unable to maintain its early domination of trade because
A. a late outbreak of the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century killed half the country's population. B. it was a small country with a small population. C. the Portuguese tired of the expenses of naval exploration and focused on their European land empire. D. the English, French, and Dutch formed a lasting alliance designed to force the Portuguese to surrender. E. a Chinese resurgence of naval exploration forced the Portuguese out.