What did the "three-fifths compromise" specify?
What will be an ideal response?
Five slaves equal three white men
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A. gunboat B. first world C. economic D. informal
A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was
A. likely. B. highly unlikely. C. highly likely. D. unlikely. E. impossible.
The Emperor Charlemagne spread Christianity among the Saxon peoples by
a. imposing taxes on those who did not convert. b. discriminating against pagans economically. c. his remarkable example of faith and peaceful persuasion. d. giving pagans a choice of conversion or death.
By the end of the thirteenth century, the institutionalization of the English Parliament
A. provided the foundation for the absolute rule of the monarch. B. enabled the barons and church lords to establish themselves in the House of Commons. C. was a system of power sharing between the monarch and groups within the society. D. enabled the knights and burgesses to establish themselves in the House of Lords. E. had failed because of the impact of the Black Death.