______________ virtually ended the importation of slaves to Brazil.
a. The central government
b. British warships
c. The creation of an anti-slavery republic
d. A shift from sugar to coffee production
b. British warships
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In his exposé of the Minneapolis mayor, Lincoln Steffens discovered that the four-term mayor had gotten rich off of funds from all of the following entities EXCEPT
A) the state lottery. B) disorderly houses of prostitution. C) opium joints. D) unlicensed saloons.
In 1998, a survey showed that one-third of the children in London's inner cities
a. could not read. b. lived in single-parent households. c. were raised by gay parents. d. did not speak English. e. did not have access to adequate food each day.
All of the following are true statements about African American participation in the Civil War EXCEPT:
A) free blacks and escaped slaves were admitted into the Union Army early in the war. B) the Emancipation Proclamation included a statement that blacks would be admitted into the Navy. C) eighty percent of the African Americans who enlisted in the Union Army were runaway slaves. D) black soldiers served in segregated units and received half the pay of white soldiers. E) some historians believe that black soldiers helped tilt the war's outcome toward Union victory.
The Compromise of 1877 __________
A) made Samuel Tilden president of the United States B) was decried by most white Southerners C) left Republican governments in the South intact D) left black Southerners to fend for themselves