What impact did the Revolutionary War have on non-elite white males?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should recognize that the results were mixed. The war strengthened notions of the sanctity of private property. It did not eliminate property qualifications for voting, but it did provide increased opportunities for political participation. Although the postwar economic situation was bleak, many poorer whites received land bounties for enlistment, greatly improving their situation.
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At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the Allied Powers included
A) Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Turkey, and Germany. B) Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Germany. C) the United States, Great Britain, and France. D) Great Britain, France, and Russia.
The major transformation in social order due to the market revolution came in the lives of the:
A) ex-slaves. B) mechanics and farmers. C) laboring poor. D) middling sort.
The "warring states era" in Japan led to the virtual destruction of Japan's capital city of Kyoto
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
By the start of the sixteenth century, the Inca empire stretched from the middle of modern Chile to the mountains of modern
A. Peru. B. Ecuador. C. Colombia. D. Bolivia.