Between 1890 and 1900, the majority of lynchings each year occurred in?
a. northern states
b. western territories
c. urban centers
d. southern states
Ans: d. southern states
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Irish writer __________ argued against romanticism and false respectability.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
By the middle of the eighteenth century, the manumission of slaves in the Mid-Atlantic colonies had been
a. prohibited entirely by colonial assemblies. b. enacted completely by legislative decree. c. dramatically increased by monetary rewards offered to masters who freed their slaves. d. dramatically decreased by legal requirements that masters post heavy bonds before freeing their slaves.
Washington's defeat of Cornwallis at Yorktown:
a. would have been impossible without Benedict Arnold's poor generalship on behalf of the British. b. destroyed British public support for the war. c. made up for Washington's failure to support General Nathaniel Greene at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. d. allowed Washington to march his men unmolested through the Lower South, where he achieved ultimate victory at Camden. e. angered the French, whose fleet had yet to arrive and who wanted credit for the victory.