In the Constitutional Convention of 1787, for the purpose of political representation, slaves were classified as
A. nontaxable.
B. three-fifths of a free person.
C. citizens.
D. property.
E. equivalent to children.
Answer: B
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a. Linear A. b. Arabic c. Persian. d. hieroglyphics. e. cuneiform.
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What will be an ideal response?
William Lloyd Garrison believed the abolitionist movement should
A. join forces with the more established American Colonization Society. B. demand freedom for slaves, but deny them citizenship. C. organize slave rebellions throughout the American South. D. seek the gradual elimination of slavery. E. stress the damage that slavery did to blacks rather than to whites.
Warfare between Englishmen and Powhatan Indians in Virginia
A. was first triggered by the kidnapping of Pocahontas. B. continued without interruption until the early eighteenth century. C. was primarily a result of religious tensions between natives and settlers. D. was uncommon until the early eighteenth century. E. included an Indian attack on Jamestown that killed hundreds of colonists.