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. Why did Americans believe that they could found a different kind of empire after 1776?

This would be an 'empire of liberty' correct incorrect

This empire would be multi-cultural correct incorrect

This type of empire would be based on expansion correct incorrect

This would be empire free of slavery correct incorrect

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. 'Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none'. Identify the speaker.

James Madison correct incorrect

Abraham Lincoln correct incorrect

Woodrow Wilson correct incorrect

Thomas Jefferson correct incorrect

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. What was meant by the term 'American multiplication table'?

Increase in the US population correct incorrect

Increase in US finances correct incorrect

Increase in US military capability correct incorrect

Increase in US international influence correct incorrect

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. What accounted for the US avoidance of catastrophe at the hands of the British in 1814?

Naval victories correct incorrect

Diplomacy correct incorrect

British preoccupation with Europe correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Why did Lincoln oppose the southward expansion of the US?

It would have drained the US economically correct incorrect

It would have involved compromising opposition to slavery correct incorrect

It would have increased immigration to the US correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. What was the key difference between US expansion pre- and post- 1865?

US expansion was based on territory rather than markets post-1865 correct incorrect

US expansion was based on markets rather than territory post-1865 correct incorrect

US expansion was limited to Latin America post-1865 correct incorrect

US expansion ended after 1865 correct incorrect

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. What were the 'open-door notes'?

An American declaration that the US was always open to Chinese immigration correct incorrect

An American proclamation that China should be divided up between the US, Japan and the European empires correct incorrect

An American proclamation that China should be open to US trade and missionaries correct incorrect

An American declaration of support for Chinese economic protectionism correct incorrect

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. What fact impinged upon America's 'neutral' stance towards the belligerent in World War I between 1915 and 1917?

US banks funded the allies much more than Germany and Austria-Hungary correct incorrect

US banks funded Germany and Austria-Hungary much more than the allies correct incorrect

Wilson secretly favoured the German position correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Why did Congress oppose Wilson's proposal for the League of Nations?

It feared the League would encourage Soviet influence in the US correct incorrect

It feared the League would be anti-democratic correct incorrect

It feared the League would commit the US to an international alliance correct incorrect

Both a and b correct incorrect

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. Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt initially favour an 'isolationist' stance on the part of the US during the 1930s?

He believed that internal reform rather than international negotiation was the key to economic regeneration of the US correct incorrect

He believed that German domination of Europe would be in US interests correct incorrect

He always favoured isolationism correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect