What made some Africans especially valuable as slaves in the Carolinas?
a. They had experience working in dry, desert-like areas.
b. They were experienced in rice cultivation.
c. They were knowledgeable regarding cotton production.
d. They proved able to increase their numbers through natural reproduction.
e. They were skilled fishermen.
b
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In an effort to forestall an economic downturn, the Truman administration took all of the following steps EXCEPT
a. create the President's Council of Economic Advisers. b. sell war factories and other government installations to private businesses at very low prices. c. pass the Employment Act, which made it government policy to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power. d. pass the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, known as the GI Bill of Rights. e. continue wartime wage and price controls.
By the seventeenth century, European visitors to tropical Africa wanted ________ more than any material product.
A. textiles B. slaves C. gold D. None of these answers is correct.
An implication of Las Casas' argument is that a major cause of the decline of the native populations in the Americas after 1492 was the
(A) importation of European and African wildlife to the Americas (B) large-scale clashes between native armies and the Spanish (C) resistance of indigenous groups to religious conversion (D) epidemics brought to the Americas by Europeans
The process of Magyarization describes
a. the removal of Scottish highlanders from their ancestral lands. b. a drive to suppress historical languages and cultures in Hungary. c. attempts to convert the Irish from Catholicism. d. work by the Russian government to force ethnic minorities to speak Russian.