English folk who agreed to sign a contract temporarily exchanging their labor for payment of their passage to America were called
A) barracoons. B) headrights.
C) indentured servants. D) burgesses.
C
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Pope Leo XIII responded to modern ideas in all of the following ways EXCEPT
A) permitting the teaching of evolution as a hypothesis in Catholic schools. B) criticizing capitalism for the poverty of the working classes. C) recommending that Catholics form labor unions to assist workers. D) embracing Marxist socialism. E) identifying Christian principles in socialism.
The mountain regions were the only parts of the South to resist the movement toward secession when it finally developed.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Why did so many slaveholders in the Upper South sell their slaves into the internal slave trade in the first half of the nineteenth century?
a. They had lost faith in slavery as an institution. b. Such sales were enormously profitable. c. High taxes forced them to do so. d. They had grown increasingly fearful of slave uprisings.
An early leader in the drive to professionalize nursing for women was
A. Francoise Jourdain in Belgium. B. Amalie Jones in Great Britain. C. Clara Barton in the United States. D. Nora Ibsen in Norway. E. Sylvia Pankhurst in Germany.