The Sixteenth Amendment __________
a. established civil rights guidelines
b. authorized the direct election of senators
c. gave women the vote
d. authorized an income tax
e. extended the franchise to 18-year-olds
D
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The life of women slaves in New Orleans offered the possibility of
A) setting up an independent household. B) making wages that could lead to freedom. C) obtaining freedom through marriage to a free man. D) greater liberty under U.S. rule.
Freed African-Americans were usually loyalists for the British because Jefferson and Washington were slave-owners and the British
a. promised them citizenship. b. had outlawed slavery. c. promised them free land. d. convinced them to not trust the colonists. e. promised to send them back to Africa.
The causes for the failure of Robert Owen's utopian New Harmony Community in New Harmony, Indiana in the 1820s included all of the following EXCEPT
A) the community could not attract enough skilled workers to make it economically successful. B) there was tension between those who ran New Harmony and the rest of the community. C) it could not sustain itself financially after Owen had exhausted his financial resources and stopped investing in New Harmony. D) the local authorities in Indiana harassed and criminally prosecuted New Harmony leaders and members.
Which of the following statements is NOT accurate concerning East?West trade?
A) Political upheavals disrupted trade but did not eliminate it. B) The balance of trade favored the East. C) Ideas as well as products traveled along the trade route. D) The desire for diverse goods, commercial profits, and information was never extinguished. E) Gold and silver were exported to the West.