Portuguese exploration in the late fifteenth century concentrated on finding a route to central and eastern Asia by sailing around Africa.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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What was the effect of the Revolutionary War on slavery?
a. At the end of the war, slavery was abolished in northern states. b. The war set a time limit to end slavery in the South. c. Initially, the war had little effect on slavery at all. d. Initially, the war led to African Americans' gaining freedom. e. The war emancipated African Americans in several states.
Charles Wilson Peale's portrait of Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming breaks with the tradition of painting separate portraits of husbands and wives to reflect the concept of __________
A) companionate marriage B) political equality between men and women C) patriarchal authority D) the supremacy of fatherhood
Between World War I and 1930, an estimated __________ black people departed the South
A) 2,000,000 B) 100,000 C) 5,000,000 D) 500,000
In the late nineteenth century, immigrants in the United States
A. took up semi-skilled craft jobs. B. avoided ports like Ellis Island for fear they would be denied entry. C. settled overwhelmingly in the relatively empty Northwest. D. generally lacked the capital to buy farmland. E. were generally better educated than immigrants who arrived a generation before.