New England became America's first industrial region in part because it had
A) only a few rivers to interfere with transportation.
B) an influx of foreign capital.
C) a surplus of young women to work in the mills.
D) a surplus of young men returning from fur trapping in the West.
E) a commercial economy that had been devastated by trade wars.
C
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's philosophy for reorganizing economic life on the basis of cooperative association was known as __________.
A. Marxism B. utopian Socialism C. mutualism D. utilitarianism
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, what did the House Un-American Activities Committee, Hollywood, and some thirty-nine state legislatures have in common?
A) They were all revealed to be riddled with communist spies and other subversives. B) They all took vigorous stands against the witch hunting of Senator Joseph McCarthy. C) They all participated in the crusade to clear Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of charges that they passed secrets to the Soviets. D) They all contributed to the anticommunist hysteria of the period and tried to root out subversives in American society. E) none of these choices.
On August 14, 1937 Chiang Kai-shek ordered
a. the bombing of the port of Shanghai. b. Japanese troops stationed outside Nanjing. c. Japanese ships at anchor off the Bund. d. Japanese ships sailing up the Yangzi.
To bring an end to the opium trade, China
A. threatened to declare war on Great Britain. B. appealed to Queen Elizabeth to end British imports of opium into China. C. imposed penalties on opium users and arrested dealers. D. banned all other imported goods from countries that sold opium in China. E. offered cash incentives to its people to stop using and selling opium.