The "starving time" refers to an event resulting in the __________
A) high mortality rates that occurred in Jamestown during the winter of 1609–1610
B) expulsion of the Powhatan Indian confederacy from Virginia
C) arrival of African slaves in Virginia
D) large number of deaths among the neighboring Indian tribes due to exposure to new diseases
A
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The "cult of domesticity" was dominant in the middle class in the 1800s
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Why was Maryland particularly vital to the Union?
a. Its slaveholders provided an example by freeing all of their slaves. b. It was the only Confederate state without slaves. c. It enclosed Washington, D.C. on the three sides not bordered by Virginia. d. It was the only border state that overwhelmingly voted for Lincoln.
The first great school of American painters in the first half of the nineteenth century was known as the ________ School.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Which of the following would have been most likely to vote forWilliam Jennings Bryan in 1896 ?
(A) A Kansas farmer (B) A Chicago industrial worker (C) A department store clerk (D) A university professor of economics (E) A NewYork Republican Party member