Big Stick Policy! He loved the saying 'speak softly and carry a big stick', meaning to use force instead of words when necessary. Formally, this was known as the Rosevelt Corollary, and it tied into the Monroe Doctrine.
Answer:
D. Europeans established new colonies in the lands of the New World.
Explanation:
When Europeans "discovered" new lands in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, their primary goal was to establish colonies to enrich the mother country.
The idea was to force the native peoples to work in extractive industries such as mining, or plantations, and in case the native peoples were not enough, to import slaves to the colonies.
Some other colonies were founded with other intentions, especially in North America, where several colonies started as religious communities.
Answer:
To be found in ¨The Age of Extremes¨ by Eric Hobsbawm
Explanation:
Hobsbawm states that the Cold War was based on a Western belief, absurd in retrospect but natural enough in the aftermath of the Second World War, that the Age of Catastrophe was by no means at an end. J.F. Kennedy, one of the most overrated presidents according to Hobsbawm, shows this belief by saying: ´The enemy is the communist system itself... this is a struggle for supremacy between two conflicting ideologies: freedom under God versus ruthless, godless tyranny.´
It is exactly this democratic freedom that ironically fueled the Cold War fire.
Where the Sovjet government didn´t have to bother about winning votes the U.S. government did.
Another element that contributed to move confrontation from the realm of reason to that of emotion was the schizoid demand of the vote-sensitive politicians to roll back the tide of ¨communist aggression¨.
On the other side of the globe the Sovjet government, with a country and economy in ruins after the Second World War, they needed all the economic help they could get to survive. So on any rational assessment the U.S.S.R. presented no immediate danger.
Answer:
In April 1783, the Confederation Congress amended the earlier system of requisition by having slaves count as three-fifths of the white population. ... Under the three-fifths compromise in the 1787 Constitution, each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a white person.
Explanation:
Answer: D. $48.3 million
Florida faces a tough challenge with regards to underage drinking because the costs had reached up to $48.3 million in 2007. These high estimates which include direct medical costs and property losses are due to two reasons: 1) Florida is a favorite tourist destination for youth 2) 78% of Florida youth have started trying alcohol at least once during their high school years and made alcohol a prevalent substance after the first try.
