Why did Turner plan a slave revolt?
A) He wanted to help poor southern white people who were victims of slavery.
B) He wanted to help free black people in the northern states.
C) He had religious visions that told him to end slavery through violence.
D) He was in love with an enslaved woman and wanted to free her from bondage.
Answer: C
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A) Freedmen received no wages for their work on Louisiana plantations. B) Former slaves gained some autonomy through this test case of emancipation. C) This system of emancipation was much harsher than the Sea Islands and Davis Bend systems. D) Ex-slaves still favored this test case because it banned corporal punishment for doing labor.
In the case of Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court held that state legislatures could not regulate railroads because
a. the U.S. Constitution did not permit the government to regulate private industry. b. the state legislatures were acting on behalf of a private interest, Illinois farmers. c. the state legislatures had provided the railroad company with state regulatory exemptions when land grant legislation was enacted to help create the railroad. d. railroad executives had committed no illegal acts in their business. e. railroads were interstate businesses and could not be regulated by any single state.
Post-Mao Zedong Chinese educational policy model was based upon the
a. Little Red Book. b. Confucian system. c. Soviet Union. d. Western system. e. Yan'an experiment.
Why did John Brown lead a murderous raid on a settlement at Pottowatamie Creek in Kansas?
A) in retaliation for a raid by Native Americans B) in retaliation for an antislavery raid C) in retaliation for a proslavery raid D) to spark a slave uprising