John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed ____ to become ____
a. John C. Calhoun, vice president
b. William Crawford, chief justice of the United States
c. Henry Clay, secretary of state
d. Daniel Webster, secretary of state
e. John Eaton, secretary of the navy
c
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Why were slave owners particularly concerned by any unsupervised meeting including ones for religious purposes?
A) Slave owners believed religious worship by slaves would significantly reduce their labor productivity on the plantations. B) Slave owners were fearful these collective meetings could be inspirations for planning violent slave revolts. C) Slave owners did not believe slaves could derive any spiritual or educational benefit from Christian religious worship. D) Slave owners believed that they had a superior understanding of the Bible and Christian religious principles than any black preachers leading unsupervised religious meetings of slaves.
Byrd's wife, Lucy, died
a) in Virginia while he was in London. b) in Virginia with Byrd by her side. c) shortly after joining Byrd in London. d) after Byrd abandoned her in London and returned to Virginia. e) shortly after Byrd died on his plantation in Virginia.
Historians can tell that premarital sexual relations increased in northwestern Europe by studying ________
A. diary entries B. anthropological factors C. church rulings D. the increase in the number of abandoned children E. oral histories
What was an unintended consequence of prohibition in the 1920s?
What will be an ideal response?