New York was an English colony because the English
A) planted a colony there before any other colonizing power.
B) immigrants to the area gradually overwhelmed foreign interests.
C) captured the area from the Dutch.
D) defeated the French in the War of Spanish Succession.
C
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John Brown is an example of a northern __________ who wanted to end slavery by invading the South and starting a slave insurrection
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The Korean War began when:
A) South Korea launched an invasion of China. B) Ho Chi Minh rebelled against continued French rule. C) South Korea attempted to unify both occupation zones of Korea. D) North Korea launched a military attack on South Korea.
By 1910, the social reformer who founded the settlement house movement, ____________________ was one of the most famous women in the United States
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to
a. shipping freed blacks back to Africa. b. supporting armed slave insurrections against all white slaveholders in the South. c. preventing the expansion of slavery beyond the South. d. forming an antislavery political party. e. the immediate abolition of slavery in the South.