Lincoln's proposal to create military districts in the South was primarily to
A) end slavery.
B) prevent anarchy and disorder in the South.
C) extend suffrage to freed slaves.
D) confiscate property from former slave owners.
Answer: B
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A) each state two Senators and a number of Representatives that depended on its population. B) the large states to control the Senate and small states to control the House of Representatives. C) the state legislatures to choose both houses of Congress. D) the voters to elect both houses of Congress.
Socrates was sentenced to death by a jury of Athenian citizens mainly because he
a. questioned traditional beliefs and refused to temper his individualism. b. betrayed Athens in the struggle against Sparta. c. urged young men to adopt pacifism and renounce warfare. d. criticized philosophy for not being able to solve human problems.
The mistress of an eighteenth-century farm household was responsible for
a. planting the fields. b. salting and smoking meat. c. marketing crops. d. butchering livestock.
Which of the following played a central role in the collection of oral histories of Indian accounts of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century?
A) missionaries B) conquistadors C) mercantilists D) Huguenots