Columbus's claims about what he would reach by sailing west across the Atlantic __________
A) were almost completely wrong
B) proved mainly correct
C) were widely accepted by royal advisors across Europe
D) were based on previous Spanish and English western voyages
Answer: A) were almost completely wrong
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In 1814
a. Thomas Jefferson retired. b. England defeated Napoleon. c. The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed. d. Citizen Genet arrived in the U.S. e. all of these choices
Which two men were top leaders of the two major parties in the election year of 1856, but were passed over as presidential candidates because of their strong stands on the slavery issue?
a. Jefferson Davis and John C. Frémont b. John Bell and John C. Breckinridge c. Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln d. James Buchanan and Millard Fillmore e. Stephen A. Douglas and William H. Seward
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the relationship between blacks and sharecropping in the years after Reconstruction?
a. As sharecroppers, blacks found themselves at the mercy of former masters who were now their landlords and creditors. b. Some merchants manipulated the system so that farmers remained perpetually in debt to them. c. Black sharecroppers often lived in conditions scarcely better than when they were slaves. d. White southerners did not work as sharecroppers. e. Sharecroppers barely scraped by economically.
The slave Onesimus, given to the illustrious colonial clergymen Cotton Mather, is most notable for what accomplishment?
a. He introduced Mather to the process of inoculation for smallpox. b. Under Mather’s tutelage, he became the first black slave to convert to Christianity. c. He introduced Mather to African call-and-response techniques which Mather popularized within the Puritan church. d. He introduced Mather to rice-cultivating techniques which made his master a rich man and which introduced a new cash crop to North America.