What triggered the Anglo-French conflict in 1754 that inaugurated the French and Indian War?
a. British speculators, mostly Virginians, claimed land in the Ohio Valley where the French were erecting forts to control the Ohio River.
b. The British attempted to build forts along the Ohio River to inhibit French trade.
c. An intense rivalry developed between England and France for the friendship of the local Iroquois tribes.
d. French and British fisherman clashed over fishing rights off the cod-rich coasts of lower Canada and New England.
e. Both countries wanted control of the Mississippi trade at the disputed settlement of New Orleans.
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a. for closing China to outside influences b. for relocating the capital c. ?for not fully assimilating into Chinese culture d. for his excessive cruelty e. for forcibly converting the Chinese
Planters in the Chesapeake began to rely more heavily on slaves because __________
A) due to local laws and improving economic conditions in England, indentured servants and convict labor were difficult to come by B) that area of the Atlantic coast lay along a more direct route from Africa than did anywhere else in the Americas C) the region was settled later in the colonial era by planters from the Carolinas D) slaves were believed to have more agreeable dispositions
Which statement best describes punishments in the slave South?
a. Southern slave codes protected slaves from excessive beatings. b. Slaveholders rarely beat their slaves, not out of kindness, but because it would interfere with production. c. Masters regularly beat their slaves, sometimes even when it meant a serious financial loss. d. Masters on large plantations were brutal; on the smaller farms, where there were fewer slaves, slaveholders treated their slaves much better.