Why was it seen as "repugnant and loathsome" for a black woman to marry a white man in 1764 in the colony of Surinam?
a. because the woman was wealthy and the man poor and it reversed the normal relations of power
b. because all sexual relations between the races were illegal
c. because sexual relations were permissible only if the woman were a slave
d. because the woman and the man were divorced
a
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After 1815, the proponents of the status quo had to contend with
a. the liberal ideal of the French Revolution that had penetrated European consciousness. b. idealists struggling to redeem humanity through the freeing of nations. c. a powerful new emphasis on emotion and personal expression. d. a radical vision of economic and social justice through socialism. e. all of the above
Which of these resulted from the other three?
A) Jackson's defiance of the Supreme Court B) the "Trail of Tears" C) Jackson's support of calls by states to remove the Cherokees D) southern states' invalidation of federal treaties
Columbus's log of his first encounter with the New World and its inhabitants reveals which of the following?
A. He wanted to profit from the land he had found by exploiting its natural resources, including its people. B. He wanted to exterminate all Native Americans and completely destroy the cultures they had built. C. He insisted that Europeans had come merely to observe, not to change, the cultures of the New World's native inhabitants. D. He believed that his primary goal should be to Christianize the native inhabitants of the land he had found.
Why were the Dutch and French colonies of Southeast Asia so hard to recover after the war?
a) During the war most of these colonies had fallen to the Japanese, who upon surrendering handed power over to locals rather than to the old European rulers. b) The Dutch and French had already had a great deal of difficulty administering these colonies for decades before World War II. Consider This: What happened at Dien Bien Phu in 1954? See 14.4.1: The Difficulty of Letting Go. c) Large Soviet armies arrived at the end of the war and insisted that the colonies be disbanded. Consider This: What happened at Dien Bien Phu in 1954? See 14.4.1: The Difficulty of Letting Go. d) The French and Dutch preferred to leave their colonies rather than risk large-scale immigration of the locals back to France or the Netherlands. Consider This: What happened at Dien Bien Phu in 1954? See 14.4.1: The Difficulty of Letting Go.