England's defeat of the Spanish Armada
a. led to a Franco-Spanish alliance that prevented England from establishing its own American colonies.
b. allowed England to take control of Spain's American colonies.
c. demonstrated that Spanish Catholicism was inferior to English Protestantism.
d. helped to ensure England's naval dominance in the North Atlantic.
e. occurred despite weather conditions, which favored Spain.
Question 2
All of the following gave rise to a more dynamic, market-oriented, national economy in early nineteenth-century America except
a. the push west in search of cheap land.
b. government regulation of all major economic activity.
c. a vast number of European immigrants settling in the cities.
d. newly invented machinery.
e. better roads, faster steamboats, further-reaching canals, and tentacle-stretching railroads.
Spanish water dog (Perro de agua español).
Spanish Water Dog
Colonial Trade with England, 1700–1774
The American clipper ship, Red Jacket, off Cape Horn, sails from Australia to Liverpool, England, in
Hundreds of soldiers in a Spanish flu ward at Camp Funston, Kansas.