When tobacco prices sagged after 1820, __________
a. farmers in the Upper South switched over to cotton and rice production
b. farmers in the Upper South found effective ways to reverse soil depletion
c. large numbers of surplus slaves were sold from the Upper South to the Lower South
d. planters in Virginia and Maryland turned openly to slave breeding as a business
e. Virginia and Maryland began exporting slaves to the Caribbean Islands
C
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The most extreme example of a nation going against the grain of the twenty-first century, North Korea forces adults to subsist on 700 calories daily, as compared to 2000-2500 among _______.
a. South Koreans. b. Chinese. c. Americans. d. Europeans.
Which of the following is NOT a part of Darwin's theory of evolution?
a. Living beings reproduce faster than the food supply. b. Since there is a scarcity of food, there is a struggle for survival. c. Living beings are not identical. Those individuals who happen to have characteristics that give them an edge in the struggle for survival have a higher likelihood to survive. d. Over time, this natural selection in the struggle for survival creates new species and kills old ones off. e. The theory of evolution proves that God does not exist.
What was the major result of the Geneva Accords of 1954?
A) Vietnam gained complete independence from France. B) Vietnam was temporarily partitioned along the seventeenth parallel. C) North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. D) France withdrew completely from Vietnam.
Galileo's importance lies in all of the following except
A) sufficient and irrefutable proof for Copernicus's heliocentric theory. B) contributions to the development of a new physics. C) a famous conflict with the Catholic Church. D) evidence to support the Copernican theory. E) the development of the science of physics.