How did the British Parliament respond to the Peterloo Massacre?
A. by restricting rights of protestors
B. by reforming parliamentary elections
C. by establishing a professional police force
D. by passing the Catholic Emancipation Act
Answer: A
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a. the Constitution could not be amended to prohibit slavery because that such an amendment would violate Americans' Fifth Amendment property rights. b. Scott did not automatically become free when his owner took him through free states and territories. c. Congress never had the constitutional power to prohibit slavery in any territory. d. black slaves did not have the constitutional power to sue in federal courts to win their freedom. e. the Bill of Rights did not apply even to free African Americans.
In Statesboro, Georgia, in August, 1904, two black men accused of killing a white family of five were
a. pulled from jail, tarred and feathered, and banished from the town before the courts could hear the case. b. beaten to death in their cells by police before their case could go to trial. c. dragged from their cells and burnt alive by a mob after having been sentenced to death. d. hanged by an irate mob after a judge released them on a technicality.
Spartan helots
A) were conscripted to fight in the city's phalanx. B) were captives of war. C) declared war on the perioikoi every year. D) had achieved the right to hold land themselves by the sixth century B.C.E. E) comprised the elite class of Spartan society.
Which of the following was a consequence of New England's population growth in the late seventeenth century?
a. The death rate among children increased substantially as population outstripped the food supply. b. A significant number of New Englanders moved back to England. c. Overcrowded conditions increased the incidence of epidemic diseases. d. The scarcity of land caused some New Englanders to abandon agriculture and learn new skills so that theycould support themselves in the developing towns.