Author Question: While a peaceful settlement with the British Parliament was still being discussed, the Second ... (Read 32 times)

TVarnum · **on:** Jul 9, 2018

While a peaceful settlement with the British Parliament was still being discussed, the Second Continental Congress

A) established an army and named George Washington as commander in chief.
B) established a navy and named John Paul Jones supreme commander.
C) entered into an agreement with France to go to war with Great Britain.
D) declared war on Great Britain, France, and Spain.
E) drafted a treaty that was rejected by Great Britain.

Question 2

The U.S. isolationist ideal lapsed briefly at the beginning of the twentieth century with our involvement in which war?

a. the Spanish-American War
b. the Russo-Japanese War
c. World War I
d. the American Civil War