Between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, race relations in Virginia exhibited all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. new slave codes were imposed based on Caribbean models.
b. new laws barred interracial marriages and sexual activities.
c. free blacks witnessed an erosion of their social standing and civil rights.
d. black slaves grew less rebellious as the number of African-born slaves dropped.
d. black slaves grew less rebellious as the number of African-born slaves dropped.
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In 1872 Horace Greeley and the Liberal Republicans focused on the issue of
A) guaranteeing civil rights and economic aid to former slaves. B) defending laws to help unions and farm organizations. C) granting women the vote. D) supporting civil service reform and low tariffs.
In what field of study did Eratosthenes produce his greatest work?
A) geography B) mathematics C) astronomy D) physics E) medicine
Sulla's legacy and importance was that he
A) became the first non-Roman consul. B) became the first Roman general to use siege engines. C) prevented civil war by arbitrating disputes between Marius and Gaius. D) divided up the latifundia and restored the dispossessed farmers to their lands. E) employed his personal army in political disputes, paving the way toward Roman civil war.
Which of the following caused white supremacy to gain momentum?
A. the association of blacks with the defeat by the North in the Civil War B. preaching of prominent ministers in white churches C. conflicts arising from the integration of schools D. desperate economic times