Which of the following was NOT a reason why some colonists were reluctant to withdraw from the British Empire?
A) They had families in England and felt connected to the mother country.
B) They had commercial ties with England.
C) They feared that the French or Spanish would take over if the British were vanquished.
D) They worried about slave and Native American uprisings.
E) They feared what American independence might mean.
D
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Concerning the role of women in traditional China, which of the following is FALSE?
A. Women could not participate in sacred family rituals. B. Women could not aspire to roles in the government. C. Women could not inherit property. D. Women were prohibited, on penalty of death, from studying the Confucian classics. E. All of these.
Which of the following was a distinctive and central feature of the German expression of fascism?
a. The use of violence as a political tool b. A single party dictatorship c. A view of war as an ennobling experience d. An insistence on a racial revolution
Industrialization in Japan was the result of
A) private investment and initiative. B) European colonization. C) socialist planning on the Marxist model. D) government planning and initiative. E) ambitious former samurai.
Louis XIV?s efforts to expand his territories to so-called natural frontiers did NOT include gaining control of the
A) land west of the Rhine. B) Pyrenees frontier. C) Italian peninsula. D) region now called Belgium. E) overseas empire.