Who did the work on the tobacco plantations during the early years of Virginia and Maryland?
a. Small farmers who owned their own land
b. Indians captured in raids
c. English indentured servants
d. African slaves
ANSWER: c
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Which group provided much of the labor in the Lowell method of textile manufacturing?
A) indentured servants B) farm girls C) young men D) prisoners of war
What is true of the geography and environment of Italy?
a. It has a tropical climate. b. It was all but uninhabited at the time the Romans arrived. c. Its terrain is such that only a handful of crops grow well in it. d. It is divided by a major north-south river system. e. Its soil is more fertile than that of Greece.
A despot refers to
A) a self proclaimed dictator of medieval Italy. B) the model of an ancient Greek tyrant in the medieval city-state. C) the model of an ancient Roman dictator in the medieval city-state. D) a self proclaimed dictator of medieval France. E) a dictator appointed by the pope to govern an uncooperative city-state.
Cooperationists believed that the slave states __________
A) should act as a unit rather than secede one at a time B) should remain in the Union C) should form a new union with northern states D) and the free states should simply find a way to get along E) should cooperate with Britain and France