Which of the following helps explain South Carolina’s slave concentration?
A) its proximity to Africa
B) its climate
C) the determination of the colony’s founders to grow rice
D) its tax laws
Answer: A
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The two modern states that made up much of the Indian Territory were:
A) North and South Dakota. B) Kansas and Oklahoma. C) Missouri and Iowa. D) Texas and Arkansas.
The Bloody Sunday insurrection was
A) a massacre of Protestants outside of the Winter Palace in 1905 that set off revolts throughout Russia. B) the first in a series of terrorist attacks against the Russia tsar. C) a gathering of protesting workers that were shot dead outside of the Winter Palace setting off insurrections across the countryside. D) the attack on tsarist military forces by the proletariat in Russia in 1905. E) the first wave of revolutionary activity by the worker's party.
Although the British had claims to Oregon by the 1840s, the increasing numbers of Americans who traveled to Oregon during the early 1840s resulted in:
a. the British conceding to America all territory south of British Columbia b. the American government taking over Oregon by 1842 c. the British government's new policy of claiming the territory of present-day Washington state d. overcrowding and financial panic in London
In the debates over ratification, a major fear of the Anti-Federalists was that
A. elected officials would be too narrowly and directly concerned with the interests of their own constituents, rather than those of the nation as a whole. B. the most powerful groups in society would dominate and eventually rule in a corrupt and arbitrary fashion. C. poorer groups would be favored over the more substantial citizens in society. D. the common people would have too much control over the government.