The upper-class plantation mistress
A. accepted a sexual code that kept white women pure but tolerated sexual relations between white men and slave women.
B. faced an unexpected variety of burdensome managerial and service duties.
C. lived a life of leisure centered around artistic and literary pursuits.
D. enjoyed the unique luxury of criticizing her own role in society as well as the slave system in general.
Answer: B
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A) there were no Indian tribes or communities remaining east of the Mississippi. B) only the Iroquois in New York, a few Cherokees in North Carolina, and scattered small organized Indian communities such as the Seminoles remained living east of the Mississippi. C) the Florida Seminoles had been annihilated and defeated by the U.S. Army in three wars. D) the Sac and Fox tribes had forcibly reacquired their native homelands in the Old Northwest from the U.S. government.
In 1924, the Democratic party convention defeated by only one vote a resolution condemning
a. the Ku Klux Klan. b. immigration restrictions. c. prohibition. d. modern art. e. Margaret Sanger's efforts to advance birth control for women.
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A. the Columbia River B. northern California C. Puget Sound D. the San Juan islands
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a. Trans-Saharan salt trade b. the Suez Canal c. cotton plantations d. Ethiopian arms trades e. Cairo University