Read the excerpts from The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (see Textbook: Sources from the Past: Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen). What ideals of the Enlightenment are expressed? How revolutionary was this document? How can the influence of Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence be seen?
What will be an ideal response?
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Soldiers like "Billy Yank" and "Johnny Reb" experienced all the following except which one?
a. Factories at home supplied soldiers of both sides with the needed equipment and uniforms. b. Both marched over rough roads in all sorts of weather. c. Each were exposed to flying lead and artillery shells, once the battle began. d. Both had poor chances for survival if wounded.
Fewer deferments and exemptions were granted by draft boards in southern states because
A) there were fewer married men and college students in those states. B) more men were engaged in war-related work in northern states. C) farm owners and workers were exempted from the draft. D) board members were reluctant to draft black men.
Not until the arrival of the______, in the fourteenth century CE, did Indian supremacy in the Indian Ocean trade begin to wane.
a. Greeks b. Chinese c. Arabs d. Dutch
For African Americans, emancipation meant
a. the ability to legalize "slave marriages.". b. the right to claim forty acres and a mule from their former masters' land. c. the opportunity to take over the white churches they had been forced to attend. d. the right to sue their former masters for back wages. e. the right to form political parties.