The crop-lien system:

a. applied only to African-American farmers.
b. became better as farm prices increased in the 1870s.
c. enabled yeoman farmers to continue to function under the same system as before the Civil War.
d. annoyed bankers and merchants who resented how it made them dependent on farmers.
e. kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.


kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.

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During the Late Middle Ages the economic and political power of the nobility

a. increased due the frequency of warfare. b. declined due to changing military tactics and demographic shifts. c. remained relatively stable because of the continued weakness of kings. d. None of these answers are correct.

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In 1637, Anne Hutchinson was deported from the Massachusetts colony because she

A. was accused of practicing witchcraft. B. challenged the prevailing assumption that the colony's land belonged to anyone but the Indians from which it was stolen. C. openly challenged the idea that good works and confessed belief in Christ made on an "elect" of God. D. was a single mother who refused to marry. E. preached against what she called the "Antinomian heresy."

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Where in the Americans was the Chumash culture located?

a. coast of the Gulf of Mexico b. Pacific coast of North America c. Pacific coast of South America d. Atlantic coast of North America e. Bering Strait

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The most common language spoken by people of the eastern Mediterranean after 1200 B.C.E. was ______________.

A. Semitic B. Aramaic C. Coptic D. Urdu E. Greek

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