In what ways was the world more interconnected from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. The flow of silver linked the Americas to Europe to Asia.
b. The Columbian Exchange describes the transfer of plants and animals across the Atlantic.
c. The “Triangular Trade” linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
d. The resolution of the Longitude Problem facilitated the discovery of new lands that could now be accurately mapped in relation with known areas.
e. Mary Wortley Montagu’s travels highlight Europeans’ engagement with a wider world, especially Turkey.
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Which of these people would have been most likely to oppose the Mexican-American War?
A) a New England Whig B) a southern Democrat C) a western farmer D) a Texas plantation owner
The Federalists passed the Naturalization Act and the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 mainly to:
A) eliminate Loyalist influence in the U.S. once and for all. B) open up foreign immigration to the United States. C) force John Adams to take a stand on the issue of French-American relations. D) defeat Democratic-Republican opposition.
Roosevelt undermined the Open Door policy by forging a close, though informal, alliance with the
A. French. B. Japanese. C. British. D. Germans.
How did the commercial revolution change the type and value of the work women did?
What will be an ideal response?