Matthew Perry became famous after he
A) put down the mutiny in India.
B) sailed his ships into Edo Bay.
C) planned the defeat of Spain.
D) developed the port of Singapore.
E) established Hong Kong as an independent city.
B
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The First Continental Congress
A) ?was a meeting of colonial governors. B) ?was a governing body put together by the British crown to stop rebellion in the colonies. C) ?was composed of colonial delegates. D) ?regulated trade with Britain. E) ?agreed to suspend the practices of nonimportation and nonconsumption of British goods.
The urge to break the Islamic monopoly of the spice trade ultimately drove Columbus to sail into the Atlantic, hoping to go directly to _________.
a. Sri Lanka (Ceylon). b. b_ The Mekong Delta. c. The Malabar Coast. d. The Ganges.
The grandfather clause
a. allowed African Americans to vote if their grandfather had been free. b. allowed otherwise ineligible voters to cast ballots if their grandfather had been eligible to vote. c. allowed African Americans freed prior to the Civil War to use white accommodations in public. d. restricted membership in black fraternal organizations to those whose grandfathers had been slaves.
The immediate cause of the Korean War, in 1950, was the
A. decision by the United States to send troops to South Korea. B. military invasion of North Korea by China. C. triumph of communism in China. D. military invasion by North Korea into South Korea. E. division of Korea into northern and southern halves.