The purpose of the First Continental Congress was
a. to protest the Stamp Act.
b. to collect taxes from the colonies.
c. to declare the colonies independent.
d. to unite the colonies in response to the Intolerable Acts.
Ans: d. to unite the colonies in response to the Intolerable Acts.
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Which of the following reflects the ideology of “separate spheres”?
a) Women stay at home and men go out to work. b) Blacks work in agriculture and whites work in industry. c) Catholics and Protestants live in different communities. d) The church should not influence the decisions of the state.
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in
A) ?1880. B) ?1882. C) ?1885. D) ?1887. E) ?1890.
The Portuguese leaders who first landed at Calicut and seized the port of Malacca were, respectively,
A. Vasco Núòez de Balboa and Pedro Martinez Munoa. B. Gonzalo Fernández and Bartolomeu Dias. C. Vasco da Gama and Afonso de Albuquerque. D. Henry the Navigator and Henry da Bruscia. E. Juan Montillo and Jorge Sikada Maio.
Women in Aztec society
A. played a dominant role. B. played almost no political role. C. were significant because of the nature of matrilineal society. D. determined the identity of the emperor. E. played a much more important role than in Inca society.