Why were devout Puritans in a perpetual state of anxiety?
a. They never knew with absolute certainty whether they were of the saved or of the damned.
b. They constantly worried about whether God wanted them to tithe.
c. They could never know whether they had done enough good deeds for God to consider them candidates forheaven
d. They lived in constant fear that they had not shown enough tolerance toward others.
a
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The end of the Atlantic Slave Trade resulted in:
A) an immediate end to the importation of slaves. B) mass riots throughout the South. C) intensified slave trading from region to region within the United States. D) an economic depression in southern states.
The text authors assert that "there were many positive benefits to . . . economic expansion and consolidation." Explain how consolidation--the elimination of competition--in the railroad industry served the public interest
What will be an ideal response?
The drawing The Black Codes in Action depicts the practice of __________
A) allowing freedmen to rent land only in rural areas B) terrorizing and lynching African American men by white supremacists C) reestablishing the gang labor system through mass convictions of vagrancy D) auctioning off the service of black men who were convicted of vagrancy
What triggered the Anglo-French conflict in 1754 that inaugurated the French and Indian War?
a. British speculators, mostly Virginians, claimed land in the Ohio Valley where the French were erecting forts to control the Ohio River. b. The British attempted to build forts along the Ohio River to inhibit French trade. c. An intense rivalry developed between England and France for the friendship of the local Iroquois tribes. d. French and British fisherman clashed over fishing rights off the cod-rich coasts of lower Canada and New England. e. Both countries wanted control of the Mississippi trade at the disputed settlement of New Orleans.