The most successful of the nineteenth-century communitarian movements was __________
A) Oneida
B) New Harmony
C) the Shaker community
D) Mormonism
Answer: D
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A) True B) False
Why did John Adams believe that land ownership was vital to society?
a. Land ownership would make people more conservative, and that would counteract any democratic impulses. b. Adams had lost his land when he took the unpopular position of representing British soldiers who participated in the Boston Massacre, and he knew how important the issue was. c. He opposed slavery and felt that if small farmers owned land, they would have the power to outvote slaveowners. d. Government would have to encourage it, and Adams believed in an activist federal government. e. If more people owned land, it would be less likely that fixed and unequal social classes would emerge.
Between 1620 and 1680, as the population of settlers in New England went to over 50,000, what happened to the Native American population?
A. It remained static. The Native American population did not remain static between 1620 and 1680. B. It decreased by about 33 percent. The Native American population did not decrease by 33 percent between 1620 and 1680. C. It decreased by about 65 percent. The Native American population did not decrease by 65 percent between 1620 and 1680. D. It decreased by 80 percent. In New England, only 15,000 to 16,000 native people remained by 1670, a loss of about 80 percent over fifty years
On the Madeiras, enslaved Africans worked alongside slaves from Russia and the Balkans. The Portuguese eventually began using only African slaves because:
A) they were more skilled. B) they were cheaper to import. C) they were less likely to rebel. D) they had a longer life expectancy.