Which of these was highlighted by Dutch and Portuguese competition in Indonesia?
A) the need for farmland
B) growth in the slave trade
C) pressure from Spanish traders
D) the value of the spice trade
D
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What did the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution do? How successful was each in practice?
What will be an ideal response?
Which statement about the Berlin Conference is FALSE?
a. France, Britain, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Italy, and Spain were participants in the conference. b. The conference would decide how Africa would be partitioned. c. Only those powers that demonstrated effective occupation of a territory would be awarded that territory. d. Africans were given an important voice in the discussions and decisions at the conference. e. The results of the conference plunged Africa into years of military action, killing millions of Africans.
What caused riots in both Los Angeles and Detroit in 1943?
A) food shortages B) abusive labor conditions C) racial tensions D) strong antiwar sentiments E) layoffs in wartime industries