In the mid-eighteenth century, the assembly of South Carolina purchased the freedom of the slave Caesar in response to
a. his skill in minkisi, or sacred medicine.
b. his service in the colony’s militia during a war against neighboring Indians.
c. his long-term, faithful service to his invalid master.
d. his invention of a new machine for harvesting rice.
a. his skill in minkisi, or sacred medicine.
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After 1763, George Grenville?s policies toward North America resulted in
A) extending English settlement to the Mississippi River. B) incorporating the Ohio valley into Canada. C) granting the English Colonies dominion status. D) igniting resistance that led to the American Revolution. E) a cooperation between the Legislative Assemblies in the American Colonies and Parliament.
The Cold War affected the civil rights movement in all of the following ways EXCEPT
a. it led to the break-up of some civil rights movements and alliances due to purges of supposed communists. b. it inspired civil rights activists to call on the U.S. government to fulfill its self-proclaimed role as leader of the free world by extending freedom to all its people. c. it compelled presidents like Harry Truman to lash out against the civil rights movement and to dig in his heels against legislation intended to provide equal rights to blacks. d. it gave opponents of black rights, particularly in the South, with the opportunity to smear civil rights organizations as “communist” without having to deal with the substance of the organizations’ stances.
Slobodan was removed from power by
a. UN forces. b. a Serbian popular revolt. c. a democratic referendum. d. assassination at the hands of a Muslim radical. e. pressure from international economic sanctions against Serbia.
Who was Marco Polo?
A) An early scientist that studied the plant life of eastern territories B) A writer of fictional tales of travel to far off lands C) An explorer that discovered Tunisia D) A thirteenth-century merchant that journeyed from Venice to China and back again E) An explorer that was the first to circumnavigate the globe in the fourteenth century