The Poverty Point site in Louisiana demonstrates that:
A) complex social organizations did not depend on agriculture.
B) matrilineal societies were usually more successful than patrilineal.
C) the Mississippian culture persisted until the arrival of the Spanish.
D) bison disappeared from North America at the end of the Ice Age.
Answer: B
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Why were Congressional Republicans disappointed in President Johnson's approach to Reconstruction?
A) He wanted to include land reform in his plan for Reconstruction. B) He voiced his support for wealthy white plantation owners. C) His plan moved too slowly toward reestablishment of the Union. D) He demonstrated that he had no interest in black equality.
What ultimately resulted in a decline in child labor?
A) mandatory school attendance B) legislation by the Progressive era Congress C) the decreasing population of young children D) lower wages paid to children
Which of the following statements about free blacks in southern states is LEAST accurate?
a. Because of the conflation of race and slavery, all southern states required free blacks to carry on their persons evidence of their freedom at all times. b. Because racial slavery led people in the South to ascribe a racial stigma to labor, free blacks in the South found it easier to get jobs in professions like teaching, dentistry, and pharmacology than free blacks in the North. c. All southern states prohibited free blacks from elsewhere from settling in their borders, and even required black sailors from out of state to be jailed throughout the duration of their stay in southern seaports. d. Several states enacted laws to make it possible for free blacks who wanted to abandon their freedom and become slaves to choose their own masters.
During the late nineteenth century, if an industrial worker was injured in an on-the-job accident caused by a "fellow servant," the employer:
a. automatically paid compensation b. was not liable for damages c. was liable for the worker's annual earnings d. was liable only if the "fellow servant" was a free, white male