Considering both problems and opportunities in each case, explain why you would have rather lived either in Massachusetts Bay or Virginia in the early seventeenth century
What will be an ideal response?
Virginia Problems: Indian hostility, harsh and unhealthy environment, forced labor, abuse from masters. Opportunities: eventual land ownership (freedom dues), potential great wealth, political representation, white racial solidarity.
New England Problems: religious intolerance, expected conformity, Indian hostility. Opportunities: close knit community life, healthy environment.
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French control over the Cordat of Bologna helped to keep France Catholic after the breakout of the ________
Fill in the blank with correct word.
The ________ Party in 1840 was the first national anti-slavery party and presented presidential candidates on platforms of "free-soil," a belief that new western territories should not be allowed to have slaves.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Historians believe literacy might have been widespread in Kush because of what evidence?
a. numerous personal wills b. numerous examples of graffiti c. a Kushite law requiring universal literacy d. they invented block printing e. all houses have written addresses