After 1680, reliance on slave labor in colonial America rapidly increased because
a. indentured servants in America increasingly demanded better wages.
b. slave codes offered planters an incentive to buy more slaves.
c. the British Royal African company gained a monopoly on the slave trade in colonial America.
d. new laws made it easier and more profitable for Americans to enter the slave trade.
e. planters feared the growing number of landless freemen in the colonies.
e
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A) ally with the French against the Russians B) declare war on Russia C) establish presidios and missions along the California coast D) seek new alliances with the Pueblo
A dramatic social development affecting the status and expectations of women in Western Europe since the 1960s has been
A) moves by conservative governments to pass legislation making it far more difficult for women to work outside the home. B) the effective lobbying of the European Catholic churches to outlaw abortion and restrict the sale of contraceptives. C) the collapse of European social welfare states under the burden of rapidly aging populations. D) an increase in birth rates across Europe because of increasing prosperity and more leisure time. E) a persistent decline in birth rates across Europe, with Spain's becoming the lowest in the world.
Late medieval thinkers
a. were unable to move beyond Aristotle's influence in the field of physics. b. made the breakthrough to modern science. c. successfully removed science from a theological setting. d. provided translations and commentaries that served as a precondition for the emergence of modern science. e. rejected the importance of mathematics for interpreting nature.
The Li-Ito Convention of 1885 stipulated that Japan and China would
a. split Korea into two spheres. b. make Korea a Japanese protectorate. c. put Korea under China as a tributary. d. leave Korea.