The European great powers welcomed a civil war in the United States for all of the following reasons except
a. war would weaken the power of the United States in the western hemisphere.
b. a divided America would likely put a halt to European immigration.
c. they could play the two nations off against one another in a game of balance of power.
d. their existing colonies would be safe against further American expansion.
e. they might more readily seize new colonial territory in the Americas.
b
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a) Republican b) Democratic c) Free Soil d) Whig
Archaeological evidence suggests that plant cultivation in the __________ began about 5,000 years ago
A) Great Basin B) Great Plains C) highlands of Mexico D) desert of Arizona
In the eighteenth century, most of the territory that would eventually become the United States was controlled by the
A. British. B. Spanish. C. Indians. D. French.
Where were the centers of the trade networks for Europe? Why those locations?
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