In 1942, Americans regained naval superiority in the Pacific with __________
A) the introduction of submarine attacks on Japanese shipping
B) victories in the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway
C) the first use of jet aircraft in combat
D) the capture of Okinawa
Answer: B
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A) successfully reconquered the rebellious quilombo of Palmares in 1694. B) defeated Prince Maurice of Nassau and ended the Dutch colonial occupation of Recife. C) secured royal authority in Brazil by revoking hereditary rights and privileges of donatories. D) enriched himself and his vassals by collecting quitrents from fifty sugar mills.
Most medieval women were __________.
A. workers like their husbands B. housewives C. nuns D. women of leisure
How would late seventeenth-century Virginia best be described?
A) a plantation society, dominated by a slaveholding elite B) a diversified society and economy, with minimal social stratification C) a society of small farmers, committed to diversified agriculture D) a successful commercial enterprise that returned large profits to the crown E) a society struggling with the question of slavery
One of the most noteworthy features of the slave community in the American South was __________.
A. its acceptance of white paternalism within its own social structure B. its refusal to incorporate Christian religious practices C. its animosity toward free African Americans D. the expanded kinship network that developed within it