What was the typical punishment for petty criminals in eighteenth-century Europe?
A) a sentence of hard labor in the colonies
B) a fine that could be paid in labor service
C) a public execution
D) a lifetime in prison
A) a sentence of hard labor in the colonies
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What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following statements accurately describes Athens between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars?
A) a period of empire-building B) a period of rapid overseas expansion C) steady decline as a result of the Persian War D) a period of isolation
Some of the more advanced Native American cultures did all of the following except
a. engage in significant ocean voyages of discovery. b. establish large, elaborate, and bustling cities. c. make strikingly accurate astronomical observations. d. study mathematics. e. carry on commerce.
Popular sovereignty did all of the following EXCEPT
A. allow the vote of a territory's local settlers to determine the status of slavery. B. draw the support of Illinois Democrat Stephen A. Douglas. C. secure the balance of power in the Senate. D. cede a crucial element of federal control over to the territories.