In the mid-1700s, the number of poor people in the American colonies
a. became greater than in all of Europe.
b. had increased to the point of overpopulation.
c. had begun to decline from seventeenth-century levels.
d. remained tiny compared with the number in Britain.
e. was about one-third of the population.
d
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A) The sculptor was friends with abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner. B) Her robes looked too much like those of a Catholic priest. C) Many thought that freedom should be represented as a man. D) Her hat was like those worn by freed slaves in ancient Rome.
The success of __________ reflected the political influence of northern black voters
a) the Fifteenth Amendment b) the Fourteenth Amendment c) the Civil Rights Act d) the Voting Rights Act
The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over
a. banking policy. b. internal improvements. c. tariff policy. d. extension of slavery into the western territories. e. Indian policy.
The revivalist _________of the 1730s and 1740s used a literal understanding of Protestantism as one of its main foundations and received its main impulse from the work of the brothers John and Charles Wesley, English Methodist preachers who made quite an impact during their tour of Georgia in 1735.
a. “Great Faith” b. “Great Awareness” c. “Great Awakening” d. “Great Order”