What does this photograph labeled "The Cotton Planter And His Pickers," which shows a well-dressed landowner holding a rifle in Mississippi and black sharecroppers on his farm, demonstrate about the relationship between these two groups?
A) Landlords and their sharecroppers had a benevolent association where each helped out the
other.
B) Sharecroppers lived a comfortable lifestyle where they were free from direct white
supervision.
C) Sharecroppers lived under the control of landlords, thus reflecting a disparity in power.
D) Sharecropping was limited exclusively to African Americans.
C
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The Dawes Severalty Act was based on the belief that:
A. Indians should be allowed to participate actively in decisions concerning their future B. By establishing reservations as enclaves protected from white encroachment, Indian culture could be preserved C. Family units headed by men were the desired social model for all societies D. Indians could best be assimilated into mainstream American society by teaching them the skills necessary to become factory workers
American forces won the Battle of New Orleans because of the firepower they were able to concentrate on the advancing British
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
All of the following are true of the Great Indian Revolt EXCEPT
A) This was the only time the sepoys mutinied. B) The sepoys were offended when the Awadh province was annexed by the British East India Company. C) The sepoys believed the Lee-Enfield rifles' cartridges were smeared with pork fat or beef grease. D) The revolt began because the sepoys were humiliated and put in leg irons for refusing to use the cartridges. E) The revolt was confined to the Ganges River Valley.
Sugar was known as "white gold" in colonial America
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.