According to your text, what questions lay at the heart of Reconstruction?
A. which party would gain the ascendancy, and how the government could regulate the economy
B. the future of political and economic power for African Americans, and the future of North-South economic and political relations
C. rebuilding the North's shattered economy, and restoring the South's shattered society
D. whether the federal or state government was ultimately sovereign, and whether African Americans or Native Americans were the most oppressed minority group
Answer: B
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Which of these was an important difference between British and colonial forces during the Seven Years' War?
A) British forces fought for patriotic reasons, not for money. B) Colonial forces were made up of hardened professionals. C) British forces were drawn almost entirely from the upper classes. D) Colonial forces were composed of volunteer companies.
The foundation of Cluny led to the emergence of which of these key principles of western culture?
A. the separation of church and state B. papal supremacy C. German aggression D. the contemplative life
Term for identification: Primary sources
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What does the Ninth Amendment say?
a. It prohibits Congress from making laws that restrict freedoms of religion, speech, and peaceful assembly, freedom of the press, and petitioning the government. b. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.". c. The protection of specific rights in the other amendments "shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.". d. The people have the right not to be subject to "unreasonable searches and seizures.". e. Powers not assigned to the federal government or prohibited to the states by the Constitution "are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.".