During the period of the Reformation, the role of women improved in each of the following ways EXCEPT ________
A. new laws gave women greater security and protection
B. Protestants stressed the sacredness of home and family
C. divorce was more frequently permitted
D. women gained an equal right with men to divorce and remarry in good conscience
E. women were permitted to take on religious orders and become preachers in their own right
Answer: E
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a. The Pope had banned England from exploring the New World because the Church already had limited land ownership there to Spain and Portugal. b. He wanted to be pope, and the College of Cardinals refused to elect an English Catholic. c. He wanted a divorce, and the Pope refused to grant it. d. He thought the Catholic Church was corrupt, and he wanted to protect the English people from its abuses. e. He was trying to unify Great Britain.
As African Americans moved into northern cities, white people who could afford to do so increasingly moved to the __________
a) suburbs b) South c) West d) rural countryside
The first antislavery society in North America was founded early in the American Revolution in which state?
a. Massachusetts b. New Jersey c. Pennsylvania d. Virginia
Compare and contrast the demographic character of New England, the Middle Colonies, the Chesapeake, and the Lower South.
What will be an ideal response?