What was the significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 for African Americans?
A) It had almost no effect, because huge numbers of slaves continued to live under slavery until the Civil War.
B) The ordinance set a legal and geographical precedent for limiting where slavery could and could not exist.
C) It demonstrated that the Articles of Confederation government had significant amounts of power in many areas.
D) It banned the slave trade, but not slavery, from the territory.
Answer: B
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A. a blending of the cultures of the invading Greeks, existing groups such as the Mycenaeans, and other neighboring peoples such as the Dorians B. the traditions of those Greeks who invaded around 2000 B.C.E. C. Minoan and Mycenaean traditions put into writing and practice by the Greek-speaking peoples D. the evolution of a Greek identity from an offshoot of the Mesopotamian peoples who colonized the Greek mainland
In 1900, the greatest concentration of manufacturing in the U.S. was in the:
A) South. B) Northeast. C) far West. D) Mississippi River valley.
The first male-dominated occupation to be entered by women was
a. architecture. b. teaching. c. jurisprudence. d. manufacturing. e. nursing.
The bloodiest day of the war occurred during the Battle of __________
A) Antietam B) Shiloh C) Gettysburg D) New Orleans