Why did President Roosevelt attempt to limit American forces in the Pacific?
A. The war in Europe was viewed as a greater threat to American interests.
B. Japan was viewed as too weak to continue its territorial conquests.
C. Japan remained a major trading partner up until the Pearl Harbor attacks.
D. The American Navy was already stretched thin protecting Caribbean interests.
Answer: A
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The term "Jim Crow" referred to
A) the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. B) African American sharecroppers. C) the small group of Southern African Americans who managed to retain the vote. D) the emergence of such white supremacist groups as the Ku Klux Klan. E) the Southern system of segregation and black disenfranchisement.
Congress enacted special legislation in 1980 and again in 1990
a. to restrict the number of immigrants coming in from South America. b. authorized 1.4 million Indochinese to resettle in the United States and assisted them in getting here. c. authorized a total amnesty for all Asian immigrants. d. to encourage Cuban refugees to migration to America. e. massively restricting all immigration into the United States.
Which assumption did the Brains Trust persuade Roosevelt should form the basis for his programs?
What will be an ideal response?