According to the legal doctrine of coverture,
A. women were better suited for childrearing.
B. Catholics were not really Christians.
C. a slave must be returned to his owner, even if across state lines.
D. a wife was legally subsumed to the identity of her husband.
Answer: D
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What was the most striking characteristic of the stock market in 1929?
a. investors' obsession with speculation b. the downward trend of major stocks early in the year c. the government's desire to carefully regulate the market d. the fact that the majority of wage-earning Americans were so heavily involved in it e. its steady advancement through the decade, culminating in record levels in 1929
The earliest prehuman species thus far discovered is called
A) Homo sapiens. B) Australopithecus. C) Homo habilis. D) Neanderthal man. E) Homo erectus.
Under the Ashikaga shogunate,
A. the samurai took control of the lands of the daimyo. B. centralized shogunate power in Japan increased enormously. C. daimyo reliance on samurai protection increased. D. the emperor came to dominate the samurai. E. the Mongols successfully captured Japan.
The war effort by American colonists would be financed primarily by
A. melting down jewelry into specie. B. spending hard currency. C. selling bonds. D. printing paper money. E. borrowing from abroad.