Many African leaders became involved in the slave trade to
a. protect their territories from European developers.
b. keep their own people from being enslaved.
c. become involved in religious wars.
d. unite various tribes against Europeans.
e. acquire guns, which now became the base of wealth.
b
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Most of the successful threats to the states in China, India, and Persia came from
a. the Islamic world. b. inside the borders of their own empires. c. natural disasters. d. peoples from the Eurasian steppe.
Caudillo is the Latin American term for
A) a retired general who has been honored in civil life. B) an appointed governor of a province. C) a usurping strongman. D) a priest who has entered politics. E) a person of mixed blood who rises to prominence.
Which of the following was true of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense?
a. It urged the colonists to make peace with Britain. b. It stripped kingship of historical and theological justification. c. It was banned in nine of the thirteen colonies. d. It had little immediate popularity among the colonists.
The Whig Party, formed in 1834, supported
a. protective tariffs and a federal banking system b. pet banks and a national currency c. states' rights and nullification d. expanded voting rights and Indian removal