Who joined the Continental Army?
a) colonists who opposed British rule
b) mercenaries from European countries
c) slaves responding to Lord Dunmore’s proclamation
d) Chickasaws hoping to keep their ancestral lands
a) colonists who opposed British rule
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Which of the following statements is most consistent with the ideas expressed by Martin Luther King, Jr., in his speech launching the Montgomery bus boycott?
A. Whites must be excluded from the African-American protest movement. B. African Americans should rely on bloc voting to end the oppression under which they live. C. African Americans should attack white racism with the same tactics used by their oppressors, namely violence and intimidation. D. The African-American protest movement is just and is right in the eyes of God.
The Peggy Eaton affair was significant because it
A) furthered a growing split between Andrew Jackson and his vice-president John C. Calhoun B) showed that even before Bill Clinton, there were presidents who had affairs. C) led to efforts to end the spoils system. D) produced calls for Congress to prohibit the transportation of women across state lines for illicit purposes. E) indicated how the Democratic Party was becoming the party of evangelicals.
In 1861 Tsar Alexander II of Russia emancipated the Russian serfs. Two years later, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Which of the following statements correctly states a similarity or a difference in these two events?
A) In both countries, it took considerable military force and violence to impose emancipation. B) In both countries, the large landowners who were affected resisted the government's efforts for decades. C) In both countries, the governments established a process by which the nobles or former slaveowners would be compensated for their losses. D) In both countries, the newly emancipated people were provided with land on which to begin a new life as free citizens. E) In both instances, sooner or later, landowners regained authority over labor, sought profit from agricultural production, and held social advantage.
As a leading figure of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards preached
A. that the ideas of predestination were outmoded for the times. B. salvation through good works. C. that women should join the ministry. D. deeply traditional Puritan ideas. E. the possibility of easy salvation.