Jefferson sent James Monroe to Paris in 1803 to __________
A) secure American trading rights to New Orleans
B) negotiate a peace treaty
C) purchase the Louisiana Territory
D) protest French policies in the Caribbean
Answer: A
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A) fixed, emplaced trench warfare. B) aerial reconnaissance. C) massive, mobile, mechanized movements. D) code breaking. E) joint naval and land attacks.
Visitors to the 1853 Crystal Palace Exhibition in New York City could have seen examples of all of the following EXCEPT
A) the elevator. B) improved versions of the cotton gin. C) the rotary printing press. D) the telephone. E) the mechanical reaper.
Under Louis XIV's rule, local institutions __________.
A. were stripped of authority B. maintained authority within their own communities C. intervened regularly in national affairs D. were largely controlled by the church
How did privatization contribute to the struggles facing Russia?
A) Privatization saved Russia from failure when the East Asian financial crisis of 1998 struck. B) It did not lead to the modernization of industry as anticipated, but to the plunder of the country's assets by tycoons and gangsters. C) Privatization was difficult and shorted the country of assets initially, but as raw materials were turned into marketable goods, the economy began to transform. D) Privatization required the assistance of loans from the EU to introduce new technology the world demanded, preventing Russia from achieving independence. E) None of these