The Parliament passed
Molasses Act in 1733 in attempt to stop New England Yankee traders from trading
fish, beef, and pork with the French West Indies for molasses that were made
into rum<span>. Six (6) pence per gallon
on molasses imported from the French islands.</span>
Answer:
Sumerians because they invented the wheel that let them travel better and they also invented cuneiform scripts that helped write several languages
Answer: Portugal
Explanation: In 1494, the two kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula divided the New World between them (in the Treaty of Tordesillas), and in 1500 navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral landed in what is now Brazil and laid claim to it in the name of King Manuel I of Portugal.
Answer:
A CIA appointee headed the new dictatorship
Explanation:
As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, the United States made decisions on foreign policy with the goal of containing communism. To maintain its hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, the U.S. intervened in Guatemala in 1954 and removed its elected president, Jacobo Arbenz, on the premise that he was soft on communism.
The threat of communism spreading throughout Latin America gave the CIA the support to overthrow the Guatemala government without disrupting the United Fruit Company and their products.
They were going to do this through the construction of a
canal. This was a joint effort by
government and businessmen and this was to be called the Erie Canal. This enabled merchants and traders to
transport their goods by water which was faster and facilitated trade.
