In a little over a generation, Japan become one of the top ten ...

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Question 1

President Franklin Pierce's attempt to annex Hawai'i to the United States failed for which of the following reasons?
 
  a. Northern and southern Congressmen alike expressed doubts about the nation's ability to defend Hawai'i.
  b. Southerners would not vote for the entry of another free state into the Union.
  c. Northern congressmen feared that an expansionist Slave Power was behind the annexation treaty.
  d. Northern and southern Congressmen expressed fears that acquisition of Hawai'i would draw the UnitedStates into an Asian war.

Question 2

In a little over a generation, Japan become one of the top ten industrial nations by
 
  a. visiting Western factories and hiring Western experts.
  b. massive private rather than government investment in transportation, communications, and heavy industry.
  c. encouraging a value system that emphasized individualism rather than cooperation and paternalism.
  d. exploiting the antagonistic relationship between the government and powerful families.
  e. adopting samurai values of honor and extreme competition.

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Answer 1

b

Answer 2

a

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