Which state or territory had the largest number of slaves in 1790?
a. Kentucky
b. Tennessee
c. Connecticut
d. Vermont
a. Kentucky
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The debates in Congress in 1819 about whether Missouri would be admitted as a free state or a slave state
A) were punctuated by heated political rhetoric including threats of disunion that was harsher than Congress had heard in a long time. B) did not reflect growing sectional divisions in the country between the commercial North and the agricultural South. C) were even more vitriolic than future debates about slavery in the 1840s and 1850s. D) were influenced by the many radical abolitionists in the North and the many defenders of slavery in the South who asserted the institution was a wholly positive good.
In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation violated the __________.
a. First Amendment b. Fifth Amendment c. Fourteenth Amendment d. Nineteenth Amendment
This chapter tells the story of the Powhatan confederacy to make the point that
A. since the English colony was so self-sufficient, they felt no need to cultivate friendly relations with the few scattered, unorganized tribal bands in the Chesapeake region. B. Powhatan had no strategy to deal with the white "tribes" who invaded his domain, so he tried in vain to organize an alliance to resist the English. C. Indians initially tolerated the first English settlers as allies against rival tribes, but the cultivation of tobacco led to white land hunger that would destroy Indian power. D. the initial English settlements at Virginia survived only because of the generous assistance provided by local Indian tribes.
The rulers of Germany in the Middle Ages and after were titled the ________
A) dukes of Aquitaine B) Holy Roman emperors C) emperors of the Second Reich D) popes