What did the Townshend Duties do?
A) They required that all legal documents and newspapers be printed on special watermarked paper.
B) They set moderate tax rates on certain imported items to the colonies.
C) They imposed such heavy duties on imported goods that colonists could no longer afford to buy them.
D) They removed taxes on all items except those being shipped to the British West Indies.
E) They raised large amounts of revenue and helped to reduce the British treasury's serious deficit.
B
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Which of the following is true of the Democratic societies?
A. They protested the policies of the Washington administration and warned of self-serving rulers who would destroy the rights of the people. B. They saw the French Revolution as a perversion of republicanism. C. They attempted to bridge the gap between the views of Hamilton and those of Jefferson. D. They urged Americans to ignore events in Europe and to concentrate on perfecting the republic.
Which statement is not an element of the compromise proposed by John Crittenden?
A) There should be a constitutional amendment to prohibit federal interference with southern slavery. B) Owners should be compensated for their runaway slaves. C) Personal liberty laws should be repealed. D) None of these choices E) All of these choices
During the war years, southern
A) industrialists failed to produce military supplies. B) yeoman farmers suffered an economic decline. C) planters increasingly relied on cash-crop agriculture. D) politicians remained devoted to the concept of states' rights.
Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, most of the labor in the tobacco fields of the Chesapeake region was performed by
a. African slaves. b. white indentured servants. c. Indians. d. white and black wage earners. e. prisoners of war.