Which of the following helps explain why so many settlers in the Chesapeake region cultivated tobacco?
A) They were required to do so by law.
B) Tobacco cultivation required little farming experience.
C) Tobacco prices rose dramatically over the course of the seventeenth century.
D) Their colonial charters required them to do so.
Answer: B
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Boston by abolitionists, reveal about abolitionists' attitudes toward the Fugitive Slave Act? A) Abolitionists were willing to cooperate with slaveholders and return their property. B) Abolitionists turned to religion to convince the public to resist this law. C) Abolitionists were willing to break laws to resist the Fugitive Slave Act. D) Abolitionists adhered to "personal liberty laws" that prohibited Northern state and local courts from trying cases of runaway slaves.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah called for the creation of
A. an independent Indonesia. B. an independent Palestinian state. C. an independent Muslim state. D. a UN peacekeeping force to maintain peace in Palestine until order was restored. E. the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
Which statement about the Puritans is FALSE?
A. They were Protestant Christians. B. They wanted to reform the Anglican church. C. They admired the Catholic elements in the Church of England D. They frequently disagreed with the Stuart kings. E. They comprised much of England's gentry.
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