Because of the Louisiana Purchase and new technology, the main cash crops in the American South became __________
A) sugar and cotton
B) tobacco and rice
C) indigo and coffee
D) peanuts and corn
Answer: A
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A) The angry reactions of segregationists belies the common idea that old racist ideas had been forgotten. B) The protests of those involved in the movement belie the common idea that racial harmony had been achieved. C) The discord stirred up by the movement belies the common idea that the era was one of complacency. D) The hard-won achievements of the movement belies the common idea that people were resisting progress of any kind during the postwar era. E) The nonviolent methods of the protesters belies the common idea that people supported violence during the postwar era.
All of the following were reactions to the great plague EXCEPT
A) an increase in violence and murder due to a sense of life's cheapness. B) the formation of groups like the flagellants, who flogged themselves to save the world. C) a reduction in the persecution of religious minorities because of the displeasure it caused God. D) morbidity and preoccupation with death in everyday life. E) economic depression.
According to Mesopotamian laws, if a son renounced his mother, the mother could do which to him?
A) ?make him a slave B) ?execute him C) ?expel him D) ?deprive him of his inheritance E) ?make him marry a slave
The Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) was organized in an attempt to unionize workers across the industries
a. true b. false