China’s first treaty with a European state was the one in 1689 with
a. Portugal
b. England
c. Holland
d. Russia
e. France
Ans: d
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During the 1952 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would ____ to help to end the Korean War
a. use atomic weapons b. blockade the China coast and bomb Manchuria c. open negotiations with Mao Zedong d. order United Nations troops to invade North Korea e. personally go to Korea
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a. Eli Whitney’s patenting of the cotton gin b. the development of the first party system c. the Supreme Court decision that slaveholders’ ownership of slaves could not be constitutionally limited by state or national legislation d. an act of Congress which reopened the international slave trade for the first time since the American Revolution
In the 1950s, the federal "termination" policy as applied to American Indians sought to
A. enforce the tribal reservation system. B. restore tribal autonomy. C. withdraw all official recognition of the tribes as legal entities. D. break up militant tribes. E. keep American Indians largely confined to rural areas.