Describe the impact of slavery on the southern economy, education, and receptivity to social innovation
What will be an ideal response?
Consider: slavery was profitable; it impeded industry, urbanization, technological innovation; it created high personal debt, high illiteracy rate; it undergirded a highly stratified society with wealth concentrated at the top; it allowed little open debate and few social reforms (fear of instability).
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The cultivation of rice, __________, and tobacco increased British importation of African slave labor into North America
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
To achieve total mobilization, the Germans did all of the following EXCEPT:
A. close retail businesses. B. raise the age of eligibility of women for compulsory service. C. shift non-German domestic workers to wartime industry. D. increase wages for all workers. E. moved artists and entertainers into military service.
In the 1930s, Poland excluded Jews from __________.
A. government positions B. law C. education D. industrial wage labor
In the early-twentieth century, rather than focusing on national politics, African American political strategists often chose to focus on __________ where black leaders could concentrate power
a) urban political offices b) congressional campaigns c) religious leadership d) state level politics