D. They acted to support big business.
During the Progressive Era (1890-1920), ending with the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, actions had been taken to regulate businesses and address the problems caused by industrialization and urbanization. But promising what was dubbed a "return to normalcy," the Republican party took control of both houses of Congress and the presidency in the 1920 elections. The Republican presidents of the 1920s (Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover) went in the opposite direction of previous Progressive Era policies. The were inclined to let corporations operate in a more unregulated fashion. They also raised tariffs to protect American business, and cut taxes for wealthy business owners.
In addition to the fur trade ,Samuel de Champlain's Quebec colony was helped by <em>firearms and gunpowder and spreading of faith.</em>
Champlain the visionary would change history.He dreamed not only of adding a great domain of France but of bringing wealth through the fur & firearms trade, of spreading the faith and of penetrating the mysteries of the great and baffling continent.He persuaded the Sieur de Monts to write off his Acadian ventures and fired him with a new energy for an expedition to Quebec.Samuel de Champlain invented/found Canada during his exploration/voyage.
A: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium and France.
B: The action is that they are all tugging on Africa.
C: The cartoonist is trying to make the point that all of these countries are fighting to control Africa.
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