"Impressment" was the British practice of:
a. stopping American ships to look for naval deserters and taking back those they found
b. trying to impress Americans with the justice of their conflict with France
c. forcing frontiersmen to trade with British merchants at forts in the Northwest
d. allowing British merchant seamen to leave British ships for better conditions on American ships
A
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Employers responded to workers' efforts to unionize and their strikes by
a. creating groups to coordinate antiunion and anti-Communist campaigns. b. appealing to the state and federal governments to pass laws that would impose restrictions on unions. c. creating groups to represent their interests in negotiations with the new unions. d. improving workers' pay and working conditions in efforts to discourage the need for unions.
Although new religious and philosophical ideas usually mixed well with native Indian customs, which of the following was difficult to absorb?
a. Buddhism b. Islam c. Christianity d. Confucianism e. Jainism
During the third phase of the French and Indian War, British leader William Pitt
A. barred the colonists from military service. B. allowed Indian tribal leaders to dictate British battle strategy. C. gave more authority to conduct the war over to the colonists. D. ignored the complaints of colonists. E. gradually loosened his tight control over the colonists.
William Jennings Bryan's principal campaign issue in the presidential election of 1896 was his _________________.
A. promise to increase existing tariffs B. vehement opposition to immigration restriction C. support of strict immigration restriction D. commitment to the free coinage of silver