Treatment of enslaved Africans in Brazil was especially harsh because slaveowners
A) were psychotic racists intent upon the extermination of black people.
B) coldly calculated that they could double their profits by working slaves to death.
C) greatly feared Africans, who far outnumbered the tiny Portuguese slave-holding elite.
D) were ignorant of other ways to increase labor productivity.
B
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The Fugitive Slave Act
a. was passed by a huge majority in Congress. b. was not part of the Compromise of 1850. c. was a very successful Federal program. d. caused many indecisive Northerners to become adamantly anti-slavery. e. was repealed within one year.
The structure of the Mughal Empire consisted of
a. a centralized bureaucracy run by professionally trained staff who were recruited through a system of examinations and promoted on merit. b. a military state in which the army controlled all elements of government and provincial administration. c. a theocratic government that was controlled by the Muslim clergy and discriminated against the Hindu population. d. a heartland in northern India with outlying kingdoms and principalities linked to the court through marriage and tribute and manpower obligations.
Why did black Americans migrate to northern cities during World War I?
A) ?? The federal government had used the wartime emergency as an opportunity to end southern sharecropping. B) ?? Southern blacks knew that race relations in the North were idyllic compared with those in the South. C) ?? They were seeking the economic opportunities afforded by northern industrial expansion. D) ?? They had been told that northern agriculture was more prosperous than southern agriculture. E) ?? They knew of the northern race riots and decided to move north to help their brothers.
At the outset of the war, the United States
a. declared its neutrality. b. voiced its support for the Allies. c. voiced its support for the Central Powers. d. began to make plans for immediate intervention in Europe. e. offered to host a peace conference.