The Mann Act reflected the growing sentiment that
a. prostitution could be ended by arresting and punishing the prostitutes.
b. prostitution is a victimless crime and should be legalized.
c. the government could improve human behavior by passing legislation restricting it.
d. the government could never eradicate immorality because sin is deeply embedded in the human condition.
c
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Opposition to early-eighteenth-century innovations in religious thought was strongest among __________
A) ordinary people in the countryside B) elites in port cities C) the urban poor D) colonial officials
The most devastating factor brought to the Americas by the Europeans was
a. the horse b. gunpowder. c. cannon. d. bronze weaponry. e. disease.
Slave revolts in colonial America
a. were confined to southern plantations. b. were far more frequent in the United States than in other slaveholding societies. c. always involved whites attacking African Americans. d. happened in northern cities as well as in the rural South.
The South's "positive good" argument for slavery claimed that
a. slavery was supported by the authority of both the Bible and the Constitution. b. slavery was good for the barbarous Africans because enslavement introduced them to Christianity. c. slaves benefited from receiving education and job training. d. slaves were usually treated as members of the family. e. slaves were better off than most northern wage earners.