Before the American Revolution, black Americans
a. had never served in any of the colonial militias.
b. were banned from militias in the southern colonies, but invited to serve in all of the New England ones.
c. served in the militias of many colonies, North and South.
d. served in the militias of the southern colonies, but not in those of New England, which had a negligible African-American population.
c. served in the militias of many colonies, North and South.
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A) German mercenaries were hired B) rich men were able to get out of serving more easily than before C) mercenaries were hired from Latin America D) it included blacks
Why were many artists and intellectuals attracted to the Communist Party during the Depression years?
What will be an ideal response?
In the 1870s, along with his sons, Frederick Douglass published a news weekly called the __________
A) New National Era B) Voice of the South C) New York Tribune D) Loyal Georgian
In the Slaughter-House cases, the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment
a. only prohibited the states from abridging those rights associated with U.S. citizenship.
b. brought individual rights under federal protection.
c. defined state citizenship and national citizenship as being one and the same.
d. did not differentiate between state citizenship and national citizenship.