The chapter introduction profiles several southerners: Colonel Daniel Jordan, a plantation master in South Carolina; a planter from the Red River country of Texas; Sam Williams, a skilled ironworker slave from Virginia, and his wife Nancy; Octave Johnson, a slave in Louisiana; and Ferdinand Steel, a farmer in Mississippi. Using what you have learned from the text about the class structure of the Old South, to which class does each of these people belong? Explain how each class differs from the others.
What will be an ideal response?
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West African slaves had their own religious beliefs. In America:
a. African religious practices became more widespread b. African religious practices on the whole were harmed c. the large majority of slaves soon switched to Christianity d. all traces of traditional African religion eventually disappeared
In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, many Jews in Germany began experiencing the effects of:
A. pogrom. B. organized anti-Semitism. C. purim. D. talmud. E. new laws outlawing Jewish-Christian marriages.
Richard Nixon largely ignored the environmental movement
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Summarize the history of Italian unification to 1860. What roles did Cavour and Garibaldi play in the process? How would you evaluate the role of Napoleon III?
What will be an ideal response?