The Portuguese squandered their New World wealth mainly by
a. Lending it to the Ottoman sultan
b. Building overly grand churches and monasteries
c. Creating a large military
d. Financing a local textile industry
e. Annexing Angola
b
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A) ?Haiti. B) ?Cuba. C) ?the Dominican Republic. D) ?Puerto Rico. E) ?Jamaica.
The combination of the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan in August 1945 and the devastation caused by nuclear bombs persuaded Emperor Hirohito to surrender unconditionally on 15 September 1945.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
By early spring of 1941, what steps had the federal government taken to promote the hiring of blacks in the defense industries?
a. The federal government had taken no steps to promote the hiring of blacks in defense industries. b. The federal government had issued statements against discrimination in the defense industry but did not back them with effective enforcement mechanisms. c. The federal government had established an effective system for ensuring that defense industries did not discriminate against black workers. d. The federal government left the matter in the hands of state governments, which it encouraged to promote the employment of black workers in the states’ home industries.
In 1954, the Supreme Court case known as Brown v. Board of Education:
a) extended the Plessey v. Ferguson ruling to include schools. b) found that separate-but-equal was unconstitutional. c) found that separate-but-equal was constitutional. d) declared lynching unconstitutional.