President Lincoln understood that the emancipation of African-American slaves would __________
A) win the sympathies of those who lived in Border States
B) prevent British intervention on behalf of the Confederacy
C) doom any hopes of a Union victory in Virginia
D) motivate white troops
B
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Indentured servants were important to the development of the seventeenth-century Chesapeake because they
A. were usually artisans who brought needed skills to the area. B. provided a relatively cheap and abundant source of labor for Chesapeake tobacco planters. C. brought new ideas concerning the cultivation and cure of tobacco. D. provided labor for important public projects undertaken by the colonial governments of Virginia and Maryland.
Which of the following was a trunk line in the late nineteenth century?
a) the Baltimore and Ohio b) American Federation of Labor c) Sears, Roebuck and Company d) Standard Oil Trust
Those who led the Bear Flag Revolt to make California a republic were:
a. young American officers under the leadership of John C. Frémont b. allied with the governor, Jose Castro c. Texans who thought the United States should have avoided war and supported the Mexicans d. British settlers who stayed in California after the United States annexed Oregon
The government of choice for the philosophes was
A) democracy. B) theocracy. C) constitutional monarchy. D) absolute monarchy. E) no organized government.