Which of the following had the greatest impact on the institution of slavery in the United States in the first quarter of the nineteenth century?
a. Demands of Southern textile manufacturers for cotton
b. Introduction of crop rotation and fertilizers
c. Use of more stringent techniques of slave control
d. Invention of the cotton gin
e. The "three-fifths" compromise
Ans: e. The "three-fifths" compromise
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A) Double V Campaign B) Stop Racism Now Campaign C) Jim Crow Must Go Campaign D) earliest effort to win desegregation of the military
The "grandfather clauses" added to state constitutions in the late nineteenth century were specifically designed to
A) unite southern poor whites and blacks on the basis of common class interests. B) deny African Americans the right to vote. C) help defeat Populist Party candidates in the South. D) protect southern blacks from white violence.
Which of the following is NOT consistent with the reign of Frederick the Great?
A) growing population B) mercantilist economy C) social superiority for the middle class D) military superiority E) serfdom
The Half-Way Covenant reflected
a. a decline in religious zeal and a way to keep political power in the hands of Puritans. b. a balance in the Bay Colony's sex ratio where women outnumbered men by 3 to 1. c. the growing political power of Puritan men who passed offices to their offspring. d. economic decline in the Bay Colony due to Indian wars.