Tobacco was the most important export commodity in the late seventeenth century for which of the following?
a. Massachusetts
b. New York and New Jersey
c. Georgia
d. Virginia and Maryland
e. North and South Carolina
Ans: d. Virginia and Maryland
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Which of the following most accurately describes southern agriculture after the Civil War?
A) Every adult male ex-slave was given forty acres and a mule. B) Both output and productivity declined dramatically. C) "Sharecropping" was outlawed. D) Tobacco replaced cotton as the most valuable crop.
What was James Buchanan's position on slavery?
A) He believed it was less important than the preservation of the Union. B) He believed it should be preserved in the current slave states but prohibited from the territories. C) He believed it was an issue the legislature-not the courts-had to settle. D) He believed it had to be abolished immediately. E) He believed the federal government had no right to interfere with it.
Jacques Maritain would agree with all the following EXCEPT
a. medieval scholasticism should be revived. b. without God's help, human reason is powerless against irrational drives. c. modern democracy developed largely independent of the Christian Gospels. d. human beings can think for themselves only if they subordinate their powers to reason to the Christian faith. e. without a commitment to God's values, people find meaning in fanatic and belligerent ideologies.