Explain the constitutional arguments presented against the Sugar and Stamp Acts by James Otis in his 1764 pamphlet The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved. What constitutional arguments were presented in subsequent pamphlets between 1764 and the Tea Act's passage in 1773? How did these arguments differ from Otis's? Why were they different?
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The most frightening slave revolt in the history of the Old South occurred in Virginia in 1831 . That uprising was led by:
a. Harriet Tubman b. William Lloyd Garrison c. Gabriel Prosser d. Nat Turner
According to Marx, the history of all previous societies is the history of
a. slow decline. b. blood and iron. c. enlightenment. d. progress. e. class struggle.
At the end of the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church argued that
a. through the doctrine of papal infallibility, there was no need to change course. b. all Protestants were heretics who should be brought back to the church by persuasion or force. c. salvation was accomplished through faith, works, and sacraments. d. indulgences were not religiously valid. e. None of these.