The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution:
A) allowed the government to suspend a writ in times of national crisis.
B) authorized armies to seize food, supplies, and even slaves for use in the war effort.
C) freed all slaves in the United States without compensating their owners.
D) included an announcement that black Americans would be accepted into the U.S. Army and Navy.
E) introduced direct taxation measures.
C
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a. outlawed or restricted constitutional reforms. b. broadened constitutional guarantees to enfranchise as many people as possible. c. became republics that overthrew their monarchies and established constitutional states. d. passed moderate constitutional reforms that permitted a limited franchise of propertied land owners.
Who wrote the realistic novel Middlemarch under the pen name George Eliot?
A) Mary Ann Evans B) Emile Zola C) Henrik Ibsen D) Leo Tolstoy E) Virginia Woolf
Reforms to the church were made by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. What was the group of people called who refused to abide by this constitution?
A. Separatists B. Traitors C. Nonjurors D. The first estate E. Jansenists
According to the introductory video in section 17.4, the Populist movement declined after the election of __________
A) 1884 B) 1888 C) 1892 D) 1896