Impressment was the British practice of __________
A) blockading any port of a nation that supported France
B) kidnapping merchant seamen, including Americans, to serve in their navy
C) carrying on nonmilitary trade with French allies
D) firing on the ships of nations not involved in its war with France
B
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A) the British were unaware that Washington's troops were in Pennsylvania. B) the crossing occurred on Christmas night. C) the British were expecting to be attacked in New York. D) the colonial militia had seemed too undisciplined for such a grueling undertaking. E) the British believed that the Patriots had surrendered.
Theodore Roosevelt's "Gentlemen's Agreement" with Japan
a. concluded the Russo-Japanese War. b. helped him to win the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. c. caused Japan to halt the flow of laborers to America in return for the repeal of a racist school decree by the San Francisco School Board. d. put a stop to the racist "yellow journalism" being practiced in the United States. e. restricted Japanese immigration to upper-class gentlemen.
After the 1860’s, what replaced fur and fish as the major export of Canada?
a. gold b. wheat c. sugar d. tea e. beef
In what time frame was the greatest number of African slaves imported into the Chesapeake and Carolina regions?
A. the second half of the seventeenth century B. the first half of the eighteenth century C. the second half of the eighteenth century D. the first half of the seventeenth century