C) The British navy had only 16 warships available for the conflict with the United States
William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7 million. Despite the bargain price of roughly two cents an acre, the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as “Seward’s Folly,” “Seward’s icebox,” and President Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear garden.”
The correct option is A
The partition of India was the partition of the British Indian Empire which resulted in the creation of the sovereign States of the Dominion of Pakistan (which later divided into Pakistan and Bangladesh) and the Union of India (later Republic of the India) on August 15, 1947.
In the riots that preceded the partition in Punjab province, there were between 200,000 and 2,000,000 deaths recorded in the genocide between religions. UNHCR estimates that 14 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims were displaced during the partition: it was the largest mass migration in the history of mankind. This marked the relations between India and Pakistan, which are still bad.
According to the Indian census of 1951, 2% of the population of India were refugees (1.3% from West Pakistan and 0.7% from East Pakistan). Delhi received the largest number of refugees for a single city, the population of Delhi grew rapidly in 1947 from being below 1 million (917,939) reached a little less than 2 million (1,744,072) during the period 1941-1951 .
Reelected as governor in 1930, Roosevelt emerged as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination two years later. He broke tradition and appeared in person in Chicago<span> to accept the nomination, famously pledging himself to “a new deal for the American people.” In the general election, a confident and exuberant Roosevelt triumphed by an overwhelming margin over the incumbent Hoover, who had become a symbol for many people of the ongoing Great Depression. In addition, Democrats won sizeable majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. By the time Roosevelt was inaugurated on March 4, 1933, the Depression had reached desperate levels, including 13 million unemployed.
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