In the years following Reconstruction, southern state governments deprived black citizens of the right to vote by all of the following means EXCEPT
a. requiring prospective votes to pay poll taxes.
b. requiring prospective voters to pass literacy tests.
c. instituting deliberately complicated balloting processes.
d. amending state constitutions to explicitly reserve the vote exclusively to white men.
d. amending state constitutions to explicitly reserve the vote exclusively to white men.
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A) reduced the pool of potential workers. B) led bosses to expect a greater volume of work. C) allowed workers to labor at home for the first time. D) ensured easier and more pleasant tasks.
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, slavery in the Americas came to be associated with __________
A) religion B) civilization C) royal power D) skin color
In the eleventh century, serfs ________
A. tried to avoid living in chartered towns B. rebelled against their lords and bishops, refusing to perform skilled work on their behalf C. were prohibited from paying their manorial dues in manufactured goods D. gained special rights and privileges from charters E. were forbidden from moving to towns and stealing skilled workers' jobs
The maroon community that first signed treaties recognizing their independent status as runaway slaves was
a. Jamaican. b. Guianese c. Haitian d. Dominican e. Belize.