What is a monopoly? A. a market that relies on the trading of goods and services without the use of money. B. a business owned by many people called stockholders. C. a market that has only one seller of a product, and the seller can influence the price of the product. D. a system in which peole earn wages and buy the goods and services […]

The Opium Wars and Taiping RebellionAlthough 19th century advances by Europeans in science and industry made them dangerous rivals to the empire, the Chinese continued to treat Europeans as just another type of barbarian. Confrontation occurred over the importation of opium from India into China. The British lacked commodities, apart from silver, to exchange for Chinese goods. Indian-grown opium reversed the trade balance in their […]

World War II was fatal to the European colonial empires. European states’ populations were too devastated to consider fighting to keep Asia and Africa subjugated. Both the United States and the Soviet Union were hostile to continuation of European colonies. A reluctant Britain, in return for American support, in 1941 agreed to the Atlantic Charter, a pact recognizing the right of people to choose their […]

Identify groups (and their grievances) that participated in increasing anti government protests as Russia rapidly industrialized. (31.1)Explain the development and motives of the British opium trade in China (31.2)Identify prominent groups within Tokugawa Japan that opposed the intrusion of foreign powers and discuss the political reforms undertaken after the Meiji restoration. (31.3 – 31.4) Show more

Examine the U.S. Government’s support during the Great Depression for programs, such as the Federal Arts Project, the Federal Writers’ Project, and other such efforts. Determine whether or not such projects were good government investments during those hard times, and provide two (2) examples that support your viewpoint. Determine in what ways the U.S. government currently tries to support the arts. Show more

A former Attorney General of the United States has stated recently that Americans are generally cowards when it comes to discussing race in America. Let us as Americans thus rise to the challenge. The textbook presents a number of primary sources that document the experiences of African Americans in United States History (1.6 – Artifact Lens, 1.6 – Economic Lens, 1.6 – Social Lens, 6.5 […]

read the following materials about prtrarchhttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/29/stylethe-first-humanisy.htmlpetrarch: letter to cicero:http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerphttp://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/using at least one citation from petrarch’s letters.what do you learn about petrarch from reading these letters?what is the tone and attitude in these letters? what can you tell about his personality, interest,concerns? what was important to him?why do you think he wrote letters to people in the past and to people in the future? Show more

for why this change took place? What impact did this change have upon the ethics and civics of what it meant to be an American? Be sure to consider change over time and geographical differences in . Hint: Think broadly here as you /concept map you’re essay before writing. What were the economic causes of this change (think about markets, productivity, trade policies, etc.)? What role did […]

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Why was acquiring Guam important for the United States in the Spanish-American War? Acquiring Guam allowed the United States to have a naval base in the Pacific. Acquiring Guam allowed the United States to export Guam’s raw materials. Acquiring Guam allowed the United States to sell goods to the people of Guam. Acquiring Guam gave the United States fishing rights in the Pacific Ocean. Show […]