How did Charlemagne try to limit the power of counts?
a. He required them to serve outside of their own family lands.
b. He required them to give him twenty years of military service.
c. He took half their income in taxes.
d. He required them to become priests.
e. He banished them from the central regions of his realm.
a
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a. It allowed African Americans to buy land on credit. b. It was forced on African Americans by ruthless landowners. c. It gave African Americans freedom from daily supervision by white landowners or overseers. d. It was a humanitarian system of poor relief.
As a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
a. whites left the South in record numbers. b. centuries of discrimination and oppression ended. c. whites refused to do business with blacks. d. white southerners began to court black votes. e. the South became strongly Democratic.
What caused the promotion of business interests by state legislatures to be fraught with difficulties?
A) Congress always attempted to step in to stop it. B) Associated official forms were often incorrectly completed. C) They opened the door to the bribery of public officials. D) Relevant tax laws were very complex.
What was the purpose of China's Northern Expedition?
A) General Chiang's successful pursuit of warlords in several northern provinces. B) The establishment of a Kuomintang government led by Chiang in Beijing. C) A widespread purge of any suspected communists, during which tens of thousands of Chinese were killed. D) The precursor to the Long March of 1934. E) A march of protest by Chinese students who were upset about several elements of the Versailles Treaty.