How did the Confederation Congress respond to the flooding of the American market with British goods?
a. It imposed a high protective tariff on British imports in an effort to save American producers.
b. It could do nothing because it lacked the power to establish a national commercial policy.
c. It established quotas, stipulating that only a certain number of certain goods could be imported.
d. It imposed an embargo on all British products.
b
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Booker T. Washington emphasized manual labor by students at Tuskegee for all of the following reasons EXCEPT he
a) needed a cheap form of labor. b) wanted students to learn to love work for its own sake. c) believed in building up the body. d) wanted his students to study "actual things" and not just books. e) hoped that by producing items needed locally, relations between Tuskegee and local whites would remain pleasant.
The system that came to be known as the "cottage industry" involved all except
A. the purchase, by an entrepreneur, of the raw materials needed for textile production. B. country laborers producing yarn and cloth. C. the selling of finished products by an entrepreneur. D. peasants grew cotton on their farms and sold the raw material to entrepreneurs. E. it was also known as the "putting-out" system.
What was the Great Schism and how was this received by the already troubled Catholic parishioners?
A) It was the permanent division between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Western Catholic Church. The faithful questioned the pope's ability, since he could not sway the parishioners in the East of his authority. B) It was the division of eastern Europe from western Europe due to the Turkish invasion. The Catholic parishioners were overly concerned about a Muslim takeover and the consequences. C) It was the division of the French monarchy into competing houses. With a French pope, there was great concern over the disposition of the ruler at the time. D) It was the division of Western Christendom into two competing groups, each with its own pope and competing College of Cardinals. The parishioners no longer knew who to follow as the spiritual authority. Therefore, all spiritual authority was lost. E) None of these
Ida B. Wells wrote all of the following except
a. Free Speech b. Following the Color Line c. Southern Horrors d. A Red Record