The Plantation Duty Act was passed in response to
A) ?an increasing slave trade.
B) ?smugglers in the North American colonies who evaded trade regulations.
C) ?the need for colonial legislatures to be funded by property taxes levied on plantations.
D) ?Dutch pirates who attacked British ships.
E) ?an increase in sugar imports from Spanish colonies.
B
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Which of the following reflects the relationship between law and race in the antebellum era?
a) It was a crime for a black person to be insolent to a white person. b) Black business owners depended on white favors and patronage. c) People of color became planters and assimilated into white society. d) People of color were considered to be free if their father was white.
Under the Fifteenth Amendment, which of the following could no longer be used to limit the suffrage?
a) prior status as a slave b) property qualifications c) literacy tests d) poll taxes
Since its inception, the scope of the World Bank has ________
A) remained the same B) diminished C) shifted towards Asia D) greatly increased
At Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco:
A. the gay liberation movement begin on June 27, 1969, with a riot at the Stonewall Inn B. hippies of the 1960s gathered for psychedelic music, drugs an the "Summer of Love." C. several sit-ins of the civil rights movement occurred at different restaurants in the district. D. members of the US Army last met with families before transport to Vietnam.