Shays’s Rebellion, which involved thousands of impoverished farmers, erupted in __________.
a. western Massachusetts
b. northern New York
c. southern New Jersey
d. central Virginia
a. western Massachusetts
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During the Civil War, women's rights activists
A) temporarily secured the vote for women, who would cast ballots for absent soldier-husbands. B) suspended their movement for suffrage out of respect for the war. C) hoped that their wartime service would be rewarded with greater equality, especially the right to vote. D) fought for salaries and pensions for wartime nurses and other volunteers. E) None of these choices
The revolution in the Netherlands included all of the following except
A) a public execution of the stadholder. B) tension between the merchant oligarchy and the military governor. C) the creation of the Dutch “Patriotic” Party. D) demands of different groups for “liberty.” E) demands for American style liberties.
Without meaningful land reform, the Freedmen's Bureau pressured black freedmen to:
A) accept sharecropping arrangements. B) migrate north to take new industrial jobs. C) obey new vagrancy laws. D) purchase land from their old masters.
The large increase in the national population reflected in the 1810 census resulted mainly from __________
a. the assimilation of whole tribes of Native Americans into the general population b. natural biological increase c. a huge increase in the importation of slaves from Africa d. the immigration of many thousands of Europeans fleeing the Napoleonic wars e. fabrication of census records by corrupt state officials who hoped to increase their congressional representation