In the Americas around 3500 BCE, the largest population center was in
A. the Chicama Valley of Peru.
B. the San Gabriel Valley of California.
C. Cahokia near modern-day St. Louis.
D. the Valley of Tehuacán in Mexico.
E. the Yucatan peninsula.
Answer: D. the Valley of Tehuacán in Mexico.
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Why did cotton farmers use so many slaves?
A) Cotton farming involved very intensive, laborious care and cultivation. B) Cotton planting and culture was spread over an extensive area. C) Cotton farmers were in Alabama and Mississippi, where racism was strongest. D) Cotton farmers tended to be the wealthiest and hated to do manual labor.
Why did slavery come to be known as "the peculiar institution" in the first half of the nineteenth century?
a. It spawned new African American religious and cultural practices that white Americans found deeply alien. b. As slavery faded away in the North, it was increasingly associated with the South, where it became more entrenched. c. The three-fifths compromise in the Constitution seemed increasingly strange and outdated to Southerners. d. As the free black population grew larger than the slave population in America, slaves became the exception rather the norm among African Americans. e. The end of American participation in the international slave trade in 1807 made slavery seem a doomed throwback to colonial times.
Tejanos were people of Mexican origin or descent living in __________
A) Texas B) California C) Arizona D) New Mexico
Nikita Khrushchev was forced out of his position by the Soviet Politburo for all of the following reasons except:
a. His propaganda failure in the building of and reaction to the Berlin Wall in 1961. b. Allowing the Soviet Union to split from Communist China in 1960. c. Appearing to back down during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. d. Failing to secure the 1964 Olympic Games for Moscow.