One effect of the Declaration of Independence was that individual colonies were motivated to reconstitute themselves as "states."
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
TRUE
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What happened in the Mexican War?
A) The president led the nation into war without a formal declaration of war from Congress. B) American armed forces fought only inside the boundaries of the continental United States. C) Although the Mexican army was larger, better equipped, and well-led, American forces easily conquered Mexico. D) General Winfield Scott led a disastrous and poorly planned campaign against Mexico City.
Absolutism means that
A) the real power in any state must be religious and exercised by the church. B) ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right. C) subordinate powers have an absolute right to overrule the king on conducting the affairs of state. D) no matter how humble, male citizens have an absolute right to participate in politics. E) rule by a secular dictator, justifying his/her authority by supposedly serving the people.
Early laborers on Virginia plantations were part of a system called indentured servitude. These laborers were the:
A) poor French men and women who hoped to make a lot of money and buy land of their own. B) English and Irish poor who sold their labor for four to seven years to cover the cost of their trip to the colonies. C) enslaved Africans who had the option to buy their way out of slavery after working for a period of several years on a tobacco plantation. D) sons of gentry who would learn the plantation system from the bottom up before running tobacco plantations of their own. E) Native Americans who were forced to work on plantations throughout the Chesapeake.
What is a tsar?
A) The Slav term for emperor B) The king or emperor of Russia C) The king of Kiev D) The head of the noble families in the Balkans E) The overlord of a large feudal territory in Russia