Why did African Americans want land? How did they justify their claims to plantation lands?
What will be an ideal response?
They wanted to be independent farmers, and they believed they had a right to these lands because they had worked on these plantations and made the owners wealthy.
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The efforts of the president of the Second Bank of the United States, Nicholas Biddle, to save the national bank in spite of President Jackson's vetoing of the bank rechartering bill in 1832
A) ultimately became successful when he rallied political support among bank proponents and patrons in Congress by making politically motivated loans and payments and easing up on credit. B) were fatally undermined when Jackson's treasury secretary, Roger Taney, deposited government income exclusively into state banks, shrinking the federal government's accounts in the national bank to the point at which it eventually was forced to close. C) were fatally undermined when it was discovered Biddle had personally embezzled $10,000 from the bank. D) were fatally undermined by Biddle's decision to tighten credit to fight inflation in the country.
By the end of the seventeenth century,
A) international trade was much greater than intra-European trade. B) wealth was being transferred back to the New World from Europe in the form of raw materials. C) local, regional, and intra-European trade was considerably greater than international trade. D) slavery was in decline in both Africa and the New World. E) European imperialism had come to an end.
Which of the following conditions best describes a chromosomal irregularity in men in which they have a genetic composition of XXY?
A. complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS) B. Turner syndrome C. congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) D. Klinefelter's syndrome
Merchants in Mesopotamian kingdoms
A. had difficulty making profits as the states dominated economic activity. B. faced strong social prejudice as their activity was seen as placing their own interests above that of the community. C. lacked motivation to develop long-distance trade as the deserts remained too difficult to cross with any regularity. D. sought to lower their risk by creating commercial rules and developing early forms of insurance. E. worked to avoid interacting with state officials and kings in order to avoid paying taxes.