Which of the following helps explain why most indentured servants were young men?
a. Women did not have the right to enter into contracts.
b. Very few women survived the transatlantic crossing.
c. Women were uninterested in becoming indentured servants.
d. Virginia planters preferred to purchase persons capable of hard agricultural labor.
d. Virginia planters preferred to purchase persons capable of hard agricultural labor.
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The Stono Rebellion terrified slave masters throughout the British colonies for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) it demonstrated the significant influence the Spanish offer of freedom for American slaves who escaped to South Florida. B) the scope of this slave rebellion and the level of its deadly violence were unprecedented in North American history. C) it required sending out the South Carolina militia to stop the armed slaves who killed whites trying to halt their march to freedom. D) colonial governments appeared unwilling and unable to take any legal steps to curtail the development of other slave revolts throughout the colonies.
With which of these statements would Galileo have agreed?
a. Science is not fit for the minds of the common people. b. Science has no practical applications. c. Science is the enemy of religion. d. One cannot be both a Christian and a scientist. e. The geocentric model of the universe is superior to the heliocentric model.
What was the only sub-Saharan African city in 1900 with more than 100,000 inhabitants?
What will be an ideal response?
What was the result of the Galileo trial?
A) Galileo was acquitted. B) Galileo was to recant his theory as a fact, and put under comfortable house arrest, to continue his work. C) Galileo was punished by being forbidden to research. D) Galileo was burned as a heretic. E) None of the above.