Which US ship was illegally attacked, detained, and boarded by a British ship in 1807, causing a major scandal?
(A) Wasp
(B) Monitor
(C) Chesapeake
(D) Constitution
Answer: (C) Chesapeake
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A) took a hard line with Hitler, threatening military retaliation for any further aggression. B) agreed that Hitler could keep lands already taken in exchange for a pledge to end German expansion. C) agreed that the Treaty of Versailles had been unfair to the Germans and that their former empire should be restored. D) created the regional Allied defense against Hitler's aggression. E) made a secret alliance with the Axis powers.
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A) the founding of several permanent colonies on the Italian peninsula. B) a simplified alphabet and system of writing. C) the establishment of an empire in Mesopotamia. D) their defeat and destruction of the Sea Peoples. E) their conquest of the Philistines.