What is the historical significance of the Nat Turner revolt in 1831?
A) It ended slavery in the South.
B) It led to greater freedoms for free blacks in the South.
C) It was the first slave uprising in twenty years.
D) It was the first slave uprising in U.S. history.
Answer: C
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Cold War security programs:
A) had little impact on the federal budget. B) were mainly carried out by the military. C) eventually involved 75% of federal government employees. D) were strenuously opposed by Congressional Republicans.
What was Proposition 13, and what is its continuing impact in California?
a. It was a 1972 ballot measure that restricted union organizing efforts by farm workers. Its passage meant that most farm workers have not been able to join unions; their wages remain low, and health-care coverage is almost nonexistent; but this allows producers to sell fruits and vegetables at low prices. b. It was a ballot initiative in 1978 that reinstated the death penalty. Today, California has hundreds of prisoners on death row. c. It was a ballot measure in 1978 that set property taxes at 1 percent of assessed value and limited annual increases in assessed value to a maximum of 2 percent per year. As a result, the state's revenues for public services and projects, including schools, have been greatly reduced from past levels. d. It was a ballot measure in 1982 that opposed construction of the California Water Project. As a result, farmers in the Central Valley and water consumers in Southern California have faced water shortages for the past twenty years.
What was a positive result of Reconstruction?
a. The emergence of vigilante groups b. Jim Crow laws c. Constitutional amendments that protected the civil and voting rights of former slaves d. Greater respect for former slaves by white southerners e. The development nationally of full social and political equality
The three major crops grown in early eighteenth-century Louisiana included all of the following EXCEPT
a. rice. b. tobacco. c. indigo. d. cotton.