Summarize local and state efforts to regulate slavery after 1830, and the various expressions of slave resistance that followed.
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a. It was positioned at the crossroads of important trade routes. b. The mountainous terrain made invasion difficult. c. Mineral resources were abundant. d. The land was especially fertile and easily supported crops.
The first ten amendments were quickly added to the newly-ratified Constitution to:
A) expand the power of the federal government over its citizens. B) fulfill the promise made to Federalists who had opposed ratification. C) limit the expressed rights of citizens in the face of national governmental power. D) reassure those who feared the power of the national government to restrict citizens' rights.
Which statement best describes the origins of sharecropping?
a. The federal government was unwilling to help the freed people in any way, so they had no alternative but to go into sharecropping. b. Most former slaves preferred wage labor, but terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan forced them to accept sharecropping. c. The freed people recognized that under sharecropping they could earn more money than through wage labor, if they worked harder. d. The South was short of capital, and landowners found it easier to pay workers in kind, rather than in cash.
Pontius Pilate sentenced Jesus to death in his capacity as Roman prefect
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false