How did the institution of slavery change in the first decades of the nineteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. The institution of slavery was marked by increasingly sharp regional variations, reflecting the impact of cotton cultivation on local economies.
2. At the same time, the contours of an African American culture emerged.
3. This culture had certain characteristics regardless of place.
4. As U.S. military strength and nationalistic pride grew, southern planters imposed a harsher, more regimented system of slavery on the black population.
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Discuss the events and developments that led to war between the United States and Japan in 1941.
What will be an ideal response?
How did African Americans protest the Jim Crow laws passed in Savannah, Georgia in 1906?
A) by rioting against white neighborhoods B) by organizing a symbolic protest march to Atlanta C) by boycotting the city's streetcar system D) by staging a three-week "sit-in" protest in cafes and coffee shops
Besides the fact that the Great Depression showed the highest unemployment rate of the twentieth century, what other generalization regarding unemployment can be made from interpreting the graph above?
A) Unemployment has been a relatively minor issue in the twenty-first century. B) Unemployment has generally been lower during times of war. C) Unemployment continued to drop after the conclusion of a war. D) Unemployment was higher at the beginning of the twentieth century than it was at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Fairs and markets were usually the immediate precursors to
a. the growth of European cities. b. churches and monasteries. c. military bases. d. fiefs. e. castle areas of kings.