What was a major factor requiring new sources of state income in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
A. the growing cost of warfare
B. piracy in the Mediterranean
C. the expense of maintaining colonies
D. internal corruption
Answer: A
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Who was at the forefront of the abolition movement in England and what argument did they make regarding the Zong incident?
a) Evangelical Protestants, who argued that morality superseded legal doctrines that considered humans equivalent to animal cargo for insurance purposes b) the monarchy, which had already lost North America to the Revolution and stressed that it did not want to compound the situation with slave revolts once the incident became known in the Caribbean Consider This: Lawyers for the insurers argued that they appeared not for the company as much as for “… the Cause of Humanity in general” when the case was retried. See 4.8: Narrative: Jettisoned Cargo. c) ship owners, who worried that they would have trouble getting insurance for future slave cargos and argued that it would be better to hire Africans to voyage as indentured servants Consider This: Lawyers for the insurers argued that they appeared not for the company as much as for “… the Cause of Humanity in general” when the case was retried. See 4.8: Narrative: Jettisoned Cargo. d) women, who were concerned that slave ownership coarsened society and encouraged other kinds of vice Consider This: Lawyers for the insurers argued that they appeared not for the company as much as for “… the Cause of Humanity in general” when the case was retried. See 4.8: Narrative: Jettisoned Cargo.
Domingo Sarmiento, like other liberal reformers ________
A) represented a move away from caudillo rule B) was a federalist C) was from a military background D) was a mestizo
What was the main purpose of the War Production Board?
A) ?to facilitate the sale of war bonds B) ?to encourage private companies to make war materiel C) ?to oversee the rationing program and enforce rationing D) ?to provide a means for Americans to donate raw materials
Republicans gave the scornful nickname of ________ to northerners who opposed the war effort.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).