A theme common to the carnival, the Feast of Fools and the charivari was
a. a rare celebration of abundance.
b. a world or situation turned upside down.
c. mockery of novelty.
d. dark supernatural forces.
e. mockery of the church.
b
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During the last three decades of the eighteenth century, free blacks in America did NOT
A) establish their own churches and schools. B) live in segregated neighborhoods. C) decline in numbers. D) move to northern port cities.
Shi'ite holy sites in Iraq were raided by the __________ in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
A) Persians B) Ottoman Turks C) Wahhabists D) Dutch
Planters in North America initially met the demand for cheap labor by recruiting indentured servants from Europe.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the concession to the South concerning
a. slavery in the District of Columbia. b. slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories. c. the revised, more stringent and coercive Fugitive Slave Law. d. settlement of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute. e. continuation of the interstate slave trade.