Many southerners saw employment in the textile mills as
a. high-wage positions.
b. strictly short-term or temporary employment.
c. a poor alternative to farming.
d. institutions that broke up families.
e. the only steady jobs and wages available.
e
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
All of the following factors contributed to the legalization of slavery in Virginia in the second half of the seventeenth century EXCEPT
a. English colonists began to enslave large numbers of Native Americans for the first time in the wake of Bacon’s Rebellion. b. birth rates in England began to decline which helped to make the people of England less inclined to indenture themselves as servants in America. c. high death rates in the first half of the seventeenth century had left the colony of Virginia in relatively short supply of laborers. d. planters’ need for workers to clear forests and cultivate crops continued to grow.
Which of the following is the proper chronological order?
a. Zheng He’s nautical exploration, reign of the Kangxi emperor; Matteo Ricci reaches China; reign of the Qianlong emperor. b. Reign of the Kangxi emperor; Zheng He’s nautical explorations; reign of the Qianlong emperor; Matteo Ricci reaches China. c. Zheng He’s nautical explorations, Matteo Ricci reaches China, reign of the Kangxi Emperor; reign of the Qianlong emperor. d. Matteo Ricci reaches China; rein of the Kangxi Emperor; Zheng He’s nautical explorations, reign of the Qianlong emperor.
Which of the following statements correctly identifies the Royal African Company?
a. This English company held a monopoly on all English trade with sub-Saharan Africa during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries b. This West African company consisted of representatives from all West African kingdoms and coordinated slave-catching raids into the African interior. c. This West African company established the rules and regulations under which Europeans were allowed to trade with states along the Guinea coast. d. This English company acted as the coordinator and licensing agent for all independent trading companies seeking to transport slaves to the English colonies.