As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century,
a. the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country shifted.
b. the British government was pleased that more workers would be available to fill an increasing need for laborers in Britain.
c. the need for slave labor declined.
d. the rate of immigration from Europe slowed.
e. the British government granted greater autonomy to colonial governments.
a
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On August 4, 1789, the aristocrats
a. ordered the execution of peasants who had responded to the Great Fear with force. b. passed a resolution in support of their manorial courts and tax exemptions. c. surrendered an array of special political and economic privileges. d. voted to reject the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. e. demanded an end to the National Assembly.
The Hebrews were
A) a powerful Mesopotamian people who conquered the Babylonians. B) a small, often-conquered people who founded the Western religious traditions. C) the original inhabitants of a land known as Canaan or Palestine. D) the founders of Western science and philosophy. E) founders of the Mediterranean area tradition of religion.
Virginia Woolf was a/an
A) contemporary to Joyce that pushed the boundaries of literature further than Joyce. B) author of the late twentieth century that evoked the struggle between the inner mind and the social reality. C) modernist artist responsible for many abstract works in the early twentieth century. D) contemporary of Joyce that set the clock back to a more traditional literary prose and style. E) independent writer that wrote predominantly of the women's suffrage movement, gaining her a reputation as a twentieth-century woman.
In 1860 the largest slave population was in:
A) Florida. B) Texas. C) Georgia. D) Alabama.