Why did colonists in the late seventeenth century adopt the practices of feme covert, the English common law concerning the legal status of a wife?
What will be an ideal response?
Men wanted to reassert their authority.
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The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act called for
a. ending all controls on the total number of immigration slots. b. stricter penalties for businesses using undocumented workers. c. granting a general amnesty to all illegal immigrants in the United States. d. building a wall between Mexico and the United States. e. closing the United States to all new immigrants for one year.
During its first few years, Jamestown suffered from
a. a location that was too dry. b. insufficient reinforcements. c. the hostility of local Indians. d. the total absence of leadership. e. none of these.
In 1971, the New York Times began publishing this classified report prepared by the Defense Department that traced American involvement in Vietnam back to World War II and revealed how successive presidents had misled the American people about it.
What will be an ideal response?
The most important proclamation of Pope Leo XIII was the encyclical ___________, which, in part, urged employers to seek just and peaceful relations with workers
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word