This engraving of laborers on a sugar plantation shows
A) the collaboration between whites and blacks in sugar agriculture.
B) the small size of the typical sugar plantation.
C) the various activities comprising the typical day of an African slave.
D) the brutality involved in sugar agriculture.
E) the many steps involved in sugar production.
E
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A) The political leaders of Texas, President Sam Houston and Secretary of State Stephen F. Austin, and most of their followers strongly preferred annexation by the United States over long-term independence. B) The Mexican government, embittered by the humiliation of the climactic Battle of San Jacinto and the Treaty of Velasco, decided not to withdraw fully from Texas and resumed hostilities in the fall of 1836. C) The United States was an eager partner for annexation, but the political leaders of the Texan republic were reluctant partners because of the large Tejano population in Texas, which opposed annexation. D) The refusal of the Mexican Congress to recognize the Treaty of Velasco placed the political independence of Texas into immediate jeopardy.
What is the goal of ethnic cleansing?
A. to make sure that Black people are not persecuted B. to discourage countries from holding hostages C. to create ethnically homogenous geographic areas D. to foster ethnically heterogeneous cities
Li Bo
A. was the founder of the Ming Dynasty. B. was a historian during the Song Dynasty. C. was a sober Confucian civil servant. D. wrote a poem entitled "Drinking Alone in Moonlight." E. defeated the Mongols at Wuhan.
According to the text, the modern worldview differs from the medieval because
a. the modern universe no longer seems to have a built-in purpose. b. the modern universe is much older and infinite. c. in the modern view, God is no longer an active agent in human history. d. in the modern view, the earth is not the center of the universe. e. all of the above