How many Africans were brought to the western hemisphere as slaves between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries?
a. 18 million
b. 14 million
c. 11 million
d. 20 million
Answer: c. 11 million
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A. The South's plantation elite erred in establishing the Confederacy, but the Union itself was never broken and endured through the Civil War. B. The Reconstruction process outlined in the Constitution should be closely followed. C. The president has sole responsibility for Reconstruction. D. The Confederate states, by seceding and making war against the United States, lost their status as states and should now be treated as conquered territories.
What role did the U.S. play in the 1973 war that pitted Israel against Egypt and Syria?
A) The U.S. sent ground troops to aid the Israelis. B) The U.S. was careful to remain neutral. C) The U.S. provided Israel with critical supplies. D) The U.S. supplied weapons to both sides.
Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were similar in that they were all
a. dependent on the export of commercial agricultural crops. b. proprietary colonies. c. founded after the restoration of Charles II to the throne. d. founded as refuges for persecuted religious sects in England. e. able to live in peace with the Native Americans.
A smaller conflict over slavery, which prefigured the American Civil War, was fought in which state during the late 1850s?
A) Missouri B) Kansas C) South Carolina D) Tennessee E) Texas