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Awilson837

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During the Civil War, Britain and the United States were nearly provoked into war by
 
  a. the incompetence of Charles Francis Adams, the United States ambassador to London.
  b. Britain's refusal to observe the Union's blockade of Southern ports.
  c. the Trent affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from a British ship by a Union warship in 1861.
  d. Napoleon III's effort to place Maximilian on the Mexican throne.
  e. British working-class support for the South.

Question 2

Which of these statements does NOT describe relations between British and colonial troops during the Seven Years' War?
 
  a. The British looked down on the colonists as amateurish and contemptible.
  b. The colonists considered themselves to be on the cutting edge of British civilization.
  c. The British were dismayed by American shippers trafficking goods to enemy ports of the Spanish and French.
  d. All colonists freely donated money and men to the British war effort.
  e. the British refused to recognize any American militia commission above the rank of captain.



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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

d



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