By the end of the seventeenth century, slaves in colonial New England enjoyed all of the following rights EXCEPT the right to
a. marry in civil and religious ceremonies.
b. prevent their masters from selling off their children.
c. testify in court and to bring legal suit for their freedom.
d. associate with fellow slaves, as well as Indians and whites, with less restrictions than slaves elsewhere in America.
b. prevent their masters from selling off their children.
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Many of the leaders of the Progressive movement __________.
a. were professionals b. got their start in radical labor groups c. tended toward radical views of reform d. opposed the expansion of women's rights
The trade routes between India and Rome crossed all of the following EXCEPT
A) the Red Sea. B) Syria. C) Persia. D) the Mediterranean Sea. E) Tibet.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Lau v. Nichols (1974) resulted in
a. California's requiring bilingual education in public schools. b. mandatory busing to integrate schools. c. the federal government agreeing to pay reparations for the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II. d. the restoration of tribal status to seventeen California Indian tribes.
All of the following are true about Reconstruction EXCEPT
a. all secessionist states were readmitted to the Union b. very few white Southerners were punished for taking part in secession c. a pattern of discrimination against African Americans developed across the South d. land was confiscated and redistributed to freedmen e. the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified by all Southern states as a condition for readmission