Slavery in the Middle Colonies
a. allowed small farmers to compete with farms in the South.
b. was most commonly used in the cities.
c. became illegal in the early 1700s.
d. provided labor for the manufacturing and service industries that dominated the economy.
B
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Lack of unity among Southerners was evidenced by Jefferson Davis's vice president, Alexander Stephens, who criticized
A) military generals. B) political campaign strategies. C) the draft and income tax. D) the ban on cotton exports. E) slaveholders.
The New England colonies became increasingly difficult for England to control because
a. as a predominately Catholic territory, New England had serious religious issues with the crown. b. the Church of England had no regulatory devices in New England. c. New England refused to pay a tax to the Crown. d. New Englanders had grown accustomed to a lack of British authority. e. New Englanders were an ethnically diverse population.
Roosevelt's decision to remove people of the Japanese ancestry to internment camps was a response to
a) Strong anti-Japanese sentiment b) Verified reports of Japanese Americans acting as spies c) The lack of Japanese Americans serving in the armed forces d) Rumors that the Japanese were developing an atomic bomb
All of the following are true of the Iraq War EXCEPT that
A. Iraq's rumored supply of "weapons of mass destruction" was uncovered by American troops in 2005. B. George W. Bush declared victory in the Iraq war in May 2003. C. over 4,000 American soldiers died in Iraq after Bush's "mission accomplished" speech. D. support for the war steadily declined in the years after the first claim of victory. E. Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003.