What event helped overcome republican fears of a standing Continental Army?
A. General Washington's reassurance of professionalism in the officer ranks
B. the dwindling number of "citizen-soldier" volunteers
C. the passage of the Quartering Act by Parliament
D. the battle of Bunker Hill
Answer: B
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Because of its geographical location, the early peoples of Russia had contact with which of the following religions?
a. Judaism. b. Eastern Christianity. c. Western Christianity. d. Islam. e. All of these choices.
What impact did the system of sharecropping, which emerged after the Civil War, have on the South?
A) It lasted only until the South recovered from the war. B) It was generally confined to black cotton farmers. C) It defined Southern cotton production well into the twentieth century. D) It provided economic and social stability for poor whites and blacks.
Which of the following was a common feature of the new state constitutions?
A) the absence of guarantees of individual rights B) weakened state legislatures C) limits on the power of state governors D) property qualifications of citizenship