The case of John F. Flintoff demonstrates which of the following?
a. Southerners from the mountains generally held antislavery views.
b. Evangelical Christianity caused a significant number of white southerners to question the morality of slavery.
c. Availability of land and capital in the 1840s made it easy for most nonslaveowning southern farmers tobecome slaveowners
d. Yeomen farmers generally aspired to become slaveowners.
d
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Germans whose families in Pennsylvania paid for their transatlantic passage were called:
a. indentured servants. b. apprentices. c. none of these choices. d. redemptioners. e. bondsmen.
Premodern Japan never created an effective centralized and bureaucratic state comparable to that of China. Which of the following is an accepted reason for that failure?
a. The emperors lost their ceremonial function to the Buddhist monks, thus decreasing respect for the monarchy. b. The frequent threat of invasion by China put a premium on local defense. c. Frequent changes in dynasty destabilized the Japanese monarchy. d. Competing aristocratic families had real political power, providing a centrifugal pull against centralization.
A substantial merchant class in Russia during the 18th century
A) was restricted to the cities of Moscow, Novgorod, and St. Petersburg. B) sprang from peasant origins C) emerged among the lesser nobility within the Russian cities. D) failed to develop.
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as the “__________ Amendments.”
a. Black Rights b. Civil Rights c. Reconstruction d. Union