When Prussia was hit by famine in 1744, King Frederick the Great, a potato enthusiast, had to order the peasantry to eat the tubers. In England, 18th-century farmers denounced S. tuberosum as an advance scout for hated Roman Catholicism. “No Potatoes, No Popery!” was an election slogan in 1765. France was especially slow to adopt the spud. Into the fray stepped Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, the potato’s Johnny Appleseed.
Answer: i think it’s to contain communist aggression
Explanation:
Spain closed the lower Mississippi River to American trade because if American relations with Great Britain were poor, affairs with Spain were worse. Spain, which held Florida as well as lands west of the Mississippi River, was anxious to halt American expansion into the territory it claimed. As a result, Spain closed the lower Mississippi River to American shipping in 1784.
A whistle-stop campaign is best described by the second choice:
<span>short campaign speeches given by a politician from a train
This takes its name from how trains would stop at various stations with a whistle sound, and a politician would speak for a short while to gain campaign support, then quickly leave with the train for the next station to do the same thing.
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I'm thinking it was on September 1783?
