By the mid-nineteenth century
a. most southerners owned slaves.
b. the smaller slaveholders owned a majority of the slaves.
c. most slaves lived on large plantations.
d. slavery was a dying institution.
e. southerners were growing defensive about slavery.
c
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a. a large immigrant population and access to natural resources. b. long history as a producer of raw materials and vast mineral deposits. c. slavery and the concept of free trade. d. high per capita incomes and a large merchant marine.
Which of these was the ruler of the Turkish republic founded in 1923?
A) Abdul Hamid B) Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) C) Muhammad Ali Jinnah D) Hussein
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A) the utilization of tools. B) origins of religious and decorative art. C) a social system with rough equality between the sexes. D) the controlled use of fire. E) the regular production of food through agriculture.
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