George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, is best described as
a. disliked by his own men.
b. aggressive.
c. overly cautious.
d. poorly prepared for military leadership.
e. strategically inept.
Question 2
In some ways, the Navigation Laws and mercantilist system were a burden to certain colonists because
a. northern merchants derived greater benefit from the system than did southern planters.
b. those colonists were heavily taxed to help provide financing for the Royal Navy, which protected colonial and British trade.
c. they stifled economic initiative.
d. Britain had the only European empire based on mercantilist principles.
e. they gave greater benefits to slaveholders.
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