The British began exporting opium from India to China because
a. It was an effective means of undermining Qing rule
b. Americans had already started such a trade
c. The Chinese government subsidized the trade
d. They needed something to balance Britain's trade deficit with China
e. It was more lucrative than tea
d
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What is true about black migration between 1910 and 1940?
A) Many blacks migrated but not as many as had left the South after the Civil War. B) Blacks were unable to migrate because of strict laws in the South forbidding migration. C) Black migration was limited exclusively to black women because men could not find jobs or housing outside of the South. D) Many blacks migrated, doubling the population of blacks outside the southern states.
The most characteristic intellectual movement of the Renaissance was
a. secularism. b. individualism. c. scholasticism. d. humanism. e. atheism.
China's long isolation from the West began to end with the opening to America that was accomplished by
a. Hubert Humphrey and Lyndon Johnson. b. John F. Kennedy and John Foster Dulles. c. Dwight Eisenhower and Dean Rusk. d. Harry Truman and Dean Acheson. e. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.