One inducement for the shift toward slave labor in the late 1600s was that
A) slaves were considerably cheaper than indentured servants.
B) indentured servitude was prohibited by Parliament.
C) slaves proved to be immune to the diseases which afflicted white indentured servants.
D) fewer indentured servants were arriving at the same time that it became easier to import slaves.
D
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Which of the following statements was not true about the Battle of Bull Run in July 1861?
a. Confederates won only after counterattacking a larger Union force. b. Union forces outnumbered and outgunned the Confederates, who had better leadership. c. Confederates called it the Battle of Manassas. d. Confederate General Robert E. Lee's forces were outmanned, so Lee used a defensive strategy.
Alexander Hamilton's long-term goal was to:
a. build up the Republican Party's political power. b. assure that the United States would be a primarily agrarian nation. c. promote the power of state governments. d. make the United States a major commercial and military power. e. succeed George Washington as president.
The Treaty of Versailles
A) absolved the Central Powers of full guilt in causing the war. B) created Wilson's United Nations. C) created a system by which the old Turkish Empire could be safely dismantled. D) dismembered the Ottoman Empire. E) forced Germany to acknowledge "war guilt" and to pay reparations for its alleged wartime aggression.
General William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea" was designed to
A) offer his troops an opportunity to loot, plunder, and gain the spoils of war. B) prolong the war until Grant could capture Richmond. C) destroy the South's capacity to keep fighting. D) draw Lee's attention away from northern Virginia.