Industrialism had changed the United States. Americans began to view their nation with increasing nationalism. The spirit if expansion and imperialism was fueled by these feelings. For one hundred years America had taken a back seat to the traditional European powers, that many American felt, should change.
In order for America to take its rightful place amongst the worlds power many felt we needed to control a vast imperial empire. This empire would provide a market for our goods, raw materials for our factories and protection for our commercial interests. The expansion was, as previously discussed, justified by the need for our people to expand commercially and the social Darwinist idea of the white man's burden. With this need in mind eyes turned towards Spain. Spain, a once mighty empire, still with vast colonial holdings many of them in our Caribbean backyard, was now a much weaker nation than us. They were ripe for the picking and a their imperial holdings would be the spoils of victory.
Letter A is the correct answer.
The Treaty of Versailles guilt clause did anger many Germans (Options B and C), which paved the way for someone like Hitler to take power in Germany and lead to the Second World War regardless of the creation of the League of Nations that had as main purpose to prevent another war from taking place( Option D).
he empire born from Mali's fall was Songhai.
Explanation:
The Western part of Africa, mostly based around the Sahel, has been home to several empires, consecutive ones, each rising out of the fall of the previous one. Initially it has been the empire of Ghana which developed around 1,000 AD, of its fall rose the empire of Mali around 1,300 AD, and from the fall of Mali rose the empire of Songhai around 1,500. All three empires, in the period in which they existed, were the major force in this part of Africa and were very wealthy.
The empire of Songhai was pretty large, occupying territory from the Atlantic coast on the west, to the central part of what is now Niger, and from the northern part of what is now Mali, to the northernmost part of what is now Ghana. This empire was very wealthy, and the wealth was mostly coming from trade. The empire of Songhai controlled the trade between Northern and sub-Saharan Africa, but also engaged in trade with Europe.
Some of the main trading goods were:
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Answer:
I believe the answer is D
Explanation:
I read somewhere that the US stopped trading firearms with them. Using that knowledge, I suggest it is D. But, the closest to what I have read would be B.
