Under the leadership of Sir Edwin Sandys, the Virginia Company attempted to encourage migration to Virginia by all of the following means EXCEPT
A) providing settlers representation in a locally elected assembly.
B) granting settlers private ownership of land to enhance their economic opportunity.
C) initiating martial law to guarantee settlers social order and security.
D) modifying the contract labor system.
C
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A) western state demands for reprisal against hostile Indians B) Republicans reminding voters that Democrats had favored secession C) Republicans who claimed to have been sitting next to Lincoln when he was shot D) efforts to break up organized labor by military force
All of the following tended to be enemies of the Bank of United States except
a. “Wall Street,” the financial community of New York. b. western bankers. c. “hard money” men like “Old Bullion” Benton. d. Andrew Jackson e. Henry Clay.
The lands distributed to former slaves by the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865 were
A) shunned by African Americans as representing too much work. B) almost totally returned to whites that same year. C) too small to be useful. D) the foundation of a new African American farming class.
The best playwrights of Rome, Plautus and Terence, are celebrated for their ________
A. comedies B. domestic dramas C. military histories D. tragic heroines E. unusual set designs