In 1875 Britain bought Egypt's controlling shares in what?

a. Trans-Saharan salt trade
b. the Suez Canal
c. cotton plantations
d. Ethiopian arms trades
e. Cairo University


b

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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A) convinced many northern Whigs that compromise with the South was impossible. B) spurred white settlement in the new territory. C) set the stage for conflict between pro- and antislavery activists. D) all of the above

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