Why did Maryland and Virginia develop and employ the "headright" system?
a. They needed a means to legally use Indians as forced labor.
b. They believed that giving land to indentured servants would entice them to come to the New World.
c. They thought that giving land to those who paid the passage of potential servants to America would help solve their labor needs.
d. They wanted a law to discourage the importation of indentured servants to America.
e. They hoped to insure that eldest sons would inherit their father's land.
c
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Which of the following is true about the subsistence and settlement patterns of the Plains Indians?
A) ?The tribes of the Great Basin enacted laws that imposed strict limitations of the size of the band within each tribe. B) ?The practice of human sacrifice significantly reduced the population of the bands and tribes of the Great Basin. C) ?Groups would come together in the summer to hunt bison and would then disperse into groups of a few families in order to survive in the winter. D) ?All Plains Indians were sedentary and relied little on hunting. E) ?They lived in large, densely populated societies year round.
The leader of the Khartoum uprising in 1883 was Muhammad Ahmad Ibn Abdallah, a(n) _________ and self-styled Mahdi (“rightly guided” or “Messiah”).
a. Buddhist. b. Ayatollah. c. Sufi. d. Sheikh.
Prazeros were
a. European settlers in South Africa. b. mixed-bloodPortuguese landholders along the Zambezi river. c. Swahili gold merchants. d. None of these answers are correct.
What was the result of Stalin's collectivization and industrialization efforts in the 1930s?
A) Succeeded in helping the Soviet Union weather the post-war period without much inflation. B) Made it possible for the Soviet Union to turn out large amounts of consumer goods that could be exported. C) It resulted in the scarcity of automobiles and clothing, as well as rationing of food at times. D) Were so harsh that even the stoic Russian people finally began to complain. E) Turned out consumer goods rather than capital goods.