What event prompted Spain to negotiate the sale of Florida to the United States?
A. the Panic of 1819
B. civil war in Spain
C. the Mexican war for independence against Spain
D. the Missouri Compromise
E. the Seminole War
E
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What were the main difficulties in creating and maintaining an absolute government?
a) Monarchs found that extending royal authority angered their nobles and clergy, and attempting to tax primitive economies was inefficient and angered merchants and tradesmen. b) Monarchs discovered that the poor education of their elites, noble or not, made it difficult to assign even the simplest governmental tasks. Consider This: Why were monarchs trying to extend their authority in this period, and how did that change the lives of their subjects? See 1.4.2: Weak at the Core. c) The clergy, claiming that a crown’s attempt to centralize was an assault on God’s order for the world, threw up roadblock after roadblock to royal reforms. Consider This: Why were monarchs trying to extend their authority in this period, and how did that change the lives of their subjects? See 1.4.2: Weak at the Core. d) There were actually very few difficulties, since nobles were happier to hunt and party than to govern their own provinces. Consider This: Why were monarchs trying to extend their authority in this period, and how did that change the lives of their subjects? See 1.4.2: Weak at the Core.
Which of the following groups was at the bottom of the social hierarchy in Aztec society?
A) women B) merchants C) warriors D) serfs E) priests
A turning point on the Eastern Front came when __________
A) the Americans defeated the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway B) Allied forces defeated the Germans at El Alamein C) the Soviet Union forced a German surrender after the Battle of Stalingrad D) FDR sent two million troops to the aid of the battered Soviet Union
Which of the following contributed to the economic decline of Nicodemus in the 1890s?
A) It was boycotted by white residents of nearby towns. B) It was attacked by angry mobs. C) The railroads bypassed the town. D) The town’s residents proved to be poor farmers.