How much did the United States increase its land size by during President James K. Polk's administration?
A) ??10 percent
B) ??20 percent
C) ??30 percent
D) ??40 percent
E) ??50 percent
E
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A) Independence movements gained strength during the war. B) The war contributed to European economic prosperity. C) Europeans believed colonies were incapable of self-rule. D) Colonies accepted the superiority of their rulers.
The Comintern was all the following EXCEPT
a. Lenin's political tool for world revolution. b. also known as the Communist International. c. an attempt to organize Communist parties or parties sympathetic to the Communists in the world. d. the basis of the Gulag, the future system of forced labor camps. e. made other Communist parties into agents of the Soviet Union.
In the 1300s, the reputation of the Christian clergy plummeted. Many Christians faulted the church for failing to
A. keep Islam from spreading. B. drive corruption out of its highest levels. C. prevent the Black Death. D. impeach the corrupt pope who had ruled unilaterally for years.
What was the reason for issuing the Monroe Doctrine? a. To stop competing cotton interests in Latin America
b. To use the principal of Manifest Destiny to expand into South America. c. To prevent further European expansion in the Western Hemisphere. d. To allow the US to use newly independent Latin American countries for raw materials in industrialization. e. To allow American bounty hunters to have jurisdiction in Latin America over runaway slaves.