In the South, a grandfather clause waived the literacy requirement for voters whose ancestors had __________
A) already passed a literacy test
B) fought in the Civil War
C) been white
D) voted before 1867
E) correctly interpreted the Constitution
Answer: D
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A) establish an English settlement on Kamchatka peninsula B) proved that a “northwest” passage did exist C) provide more knowledge of the Alaskan coast D) brought England into the lucrative Australian-North American fur trade
What was a common feature of many sharecropping agreements?
A) Most of the time landowners accepted a share of the crop for rent. B) Sharecropping agreements spelled out blacks' rights to vote and other constitutional rights. C) Landowners prevented blacks from growing cotton. D) Laborers could quit or strike.
What was the most important reason for the massive growth of the African slave trade in the sixteenth century?
A. The need to supply the mines of Peru with an abundant labor force B. The desire to develop the tobacco plantations of the New World C. The intense labor needs created by the development of sugar growing in the New World D. The enormous growth in the African birth rate E. The European ability to obtain slaves in many West African areas
The Antifederalists' biggest complaint was that the new Constitution did not have a(n) ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).