Which of the following is the earliest form of surviving architecture found in Africa?
a. the Moorish palaces at Zanzibar
b. the pyramids of Egypt
c. the ruins of Great Zimbabwe
d. the mound city of Timbuktu
e. the ruins of Carthage
b
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By the 1720s, which of the following was an important difference between northern and southern colonial societies?
A. The economy of the southern colonies was based on diversified agriculture, whereas that of the northern colonies was based on the production of staple crops. B. The political institutions of the southern colonies were more representative of the masses than were those in the northern colonies. C. There was more economic opportunity for new arrivals in the southern colonies than in the northern colonies. D. The South had become a slave society, whereas the North was a society with slaves.
When colonists protested the Stamp Tax with the cry "no taxation without representation," George Grenville argued that
A) each member of Parliament, regardless of his residence, represented all colonists in the empire. B) colonists, through their agents in London, were represented in Parliament. C) the colonists were adequately represented in their own colonial assemblies. D) Parliament could tax the colonists even though they were not represented in the House of Commons.
While the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956 helped both the automobile and construction industries, it hurt:
A) mass transit systems and older cities. B) the trucking industries. C) surburban development. D) farming communities.
During the Civil War, the term “contraband camps” referred to:
a. camps in which materials such as rifles and gunpowder were kept. b. holding areas for items seized by customs agents for failure to pay tariffs. c. training grounds for the youthful musicians who played to raise the morale of the troops. d. camps of southern slaves who had escaped from their masters and entered Union lines. e. places near battlefields where the Union army temporarily kept Confederate prisoners.