Settlers on the Great Plains
A) often gave up and moved on, rather than endure harsh conditions indefinitely.
B) were comprised of a large number of African Americans, recently freed from slavery after the Civil War.
C) adjusted quickly to frontier life.
D) built wooden homes similar to those they had left behind.
E) liked the temperate climate and flat lands.
A
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The panic of 1819
a. was the dark prelude to the "Era of Good Feelings." b. was particularly damaging to the Northeast. c. caused Henry Clay´s American System programs to be repealed. d. aroused criticism of the practice of imprisoning debtors. e. sparked a national movement for currency and banking reform.
Explain the pragmatic as well as the psychological reasons that led white American colonists of the seventeenth century to transform the black servant from a human being to a piece of chattel property
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following was NOT a part of the Compromise of 1850?
A) California would join the Union as a free state. B) Slave trade would be banned in the nation's capital. C) The Congress passed a tougher Fugitive Slave Law. D) Texas would get $10 million but would have to stop trying to sway New Mexico toward adopting the system of slavery. E) New Mexico and Utah could have slaves as long as they remained territories, but slavery would end when they become states.
One thing immigrants from the four major Hispanic groups have had in common is that they have tended to __________
A) be relatively wealthy B) have few children C) be relatively young D) have very high college graduation rates E) live primarily in rural areas