Which of the following is not a long-term consequence of the creation of a world trading system by the European maritime powers:
a. Indian commodities were now being shipped globally
b. the Dutch and the British saw a sharp decline in their supremacy in India
c. growth of the Indian textile trade
d. growth of American silver and food and cash crop imports into India
b. the Dutch and the British saw a sharp decline in their supremacy in India
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The Homestead Act:
A) used land to finance the construction of railroads. B) gave 160 acres of public land to citizens who would improve it. C) established the federal Department of Agriculture. D) gave state public land to finance land grant colleges.
What does this image of freedmen being forcibly returned to their plantations if they ran away or resisted working there reveal about the Louisiana test case of emancipation?
A) Freedmen received no wages for their work on Louisiana plantations. B) Former slaves gained some autonomy through this test case of emancipation. C) This system of emancipation was much harsher than the Sea Islands and Davis Bend systems. D) Ex-slaves still favored this test case because it banned corporal punishment for doing labor.
Aztec society
a. focused its religious interest on "the holy one," Huitzilopochtli, the only god in the monotheistic Aztec system of religious belief. b. did not possess a writing system as such, although it developed hieroglyphs. c. dedicated the sacred precinct in central Tenochtitlán to the rain god, Shiva, and to Huitzilopochtli. d. did not sharply delineate gender roles. e. was egalitarian in theory but hierarchical in practice.
How did migrations to the Chesapeake and New England help to determine the initial character of these two colonial societies?
What will be an ideal response?