The Iberian political systems aided exploration in all the following ways EXCEPT
A) the intent to spread Catholicism.
B) aristocrats regarded conquest and plunder as normal sources of income.
C) the powers of the monarchs had been usurped by the merchant class.
D) the intent to divert the Turkish menace.
E) the monarchs? power had been expanded.
C
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Which of the following dramatically altered life in the northern United States in the three decades before the Civil War?
A) The Market Revolution B) The Industrial Revolution C) Ruralization D) Prohibition E) The Great Awakening
Which of the following was NOT a belief shared by practitioners of many indigenous African religions?
A) The idea of a creator deity. B) A moral code based on one supreme god. C) The veneration of ancestors. D) The view that the land had religious significance.
Between the mid-1930s and the end of World War II,
A. Chiang Kai-shek finally obtained a firm grip on all but northwest China, and implemented a "crash program" of modernization, which won peasant support. B. the Chinese Communists steadily increased their power so that by 1945 up to thirty million people were under their control. C. Japan made peace with Chiang in 1940, joining him in a war against Mao's Communists. D. Mao Zedong married Chiang's daughter, which reunited China until the late 1950s. E. the Chinese Communist party changed its focus from organizing peasants to winning over the middle class city dwellers and the large bankers in Shanghai.
Manifest Destiny was a popular national creed, but there was a long-term cost. The sectional crisis of the 1850s was precipitated not only by the rising abolitionist movement in the North, but also by a question raised by expansion to the West.
A. Will westerners tend to vote Democrat or Whig? B. What will be the status of slavery in the new territories? C. Will more southerners or northerners settle the West? D. Will the transcontinental railroad link the West to the North or to the South?