Answer:
Gold had not been discovered there yet, but Polk wanted California and its magnificent San Francisco Bay as the American gateway to trade with China and other Asian nations. Polk was worried that other nations, such as England or France, might take California if the United States did not act.
Explanation:
D is the one, but it is a trick question. Catholic Spain DID try to get the Netherlands to convert to Catholicism and remain under Spanish rule, but it never worked! The Netherlands resisted, and asked for (and got) English help in resisting the Spanish overlords. It led to the Thirty Years War, in which the Netherlands fought back against the Spanish.
Spain tried everything from the Inquisition to bloody reprisals, and the persecution of the Dutch Protestants. The English "loaned" Willliam of Orange to the Netherlands, who defeated the Spanish army.
Answer:
The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
Explanation:
With regards to whether imperialism was a fair excuse for the Industrial Revolution, the answer is that <u>it was not. </u>
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<h3>What was the relationship between imperialism and the Industrial Revolution?</h3>
- Raw materials were needed to produce more goods and so colonies were acquired to get these goods cheaply.
- New markets were needed to sell the goods produced as well.
Both of these are not good enough excuses for imperialism because these nations could have engaged in fair and mutually beneficial trade that would have led to both the colonized nations, and themselves, developing.
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A penal colony. Run for the purpose of keeping criminals out of Britain, whilst being punished.
