The economic crisis in the late sixteenth century was primarily due to
a. collapse of the trading infrastructure within China
b. attacks from subordinate territories in Vietnam.
c. Spanish piracy against Dutch shipping and trade.
d. interruption of the silver imports from the Americas.
e. a devastating plague that killed off nearly one-third of the taxpaying population.
d
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In the first few years after the war
a. there were no labor strikes in America. b. total employment improved. c. more women entered the workforce. d. a brief depression occurred.
What kind of political ideology did widening economic freedoms lead to in the twentieth century?
a. fundamentalism b. democracy c. socialism d. communism
In the Spanish-American War, naval forces commanded by Commodore George Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet in the Philippines
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was founded by Captain Richard Henry Pratt in 1879 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Looking at the class for young Indian girls shown in the photo above, what was the purpose of this institution?
A) to strip Indian children of their cultural identify and reshape them as model American citizens in the European mold B) to incorporate the best of Native American culture with those values associated with American citizenship to produce a new hybrid "Indian" culture C) to train Indian children to be valuable assets who would serve as Army scouts and Bureau of Indians Affairs teachers when they were returned to their respective reservations in the West D) to permanently transplant young Indians to towns and villages in the East where they would live as farmers and housewives and cast off their Native American identity E) to use the Indian children to teach easterners to respect Native American culture and values by displaying their skills and accomplishments