Australia was founded
A) by the French as a defensive outpost.
B) by the Italians as a leper colony.
C) by the Dutch as a commercial colony.
D) by the British as a penal colony.
E) by the Portuguese as a trading post.
D
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A. the closing of Protestant churches and schools. B. the exile of Protestant ministers. C. the ceremonial baptism of Protestant children by Catholic priests. D. the sentencing of nonconverting laity to the galleys. E. the execution of a majority of the Protestant nobility.
Which of the following made American industrial towns different than European ones?
A) unsafe and unsanitary working conditions B) democracy and social mobility C) hereditary privilege D) more expensive land E) fewer railroad networks
In the seventeenth-century Caribbean, indentured servants cost ____ as slaves for cash-short tobacco producers
a. twice as much b. three times as much c. half as much d. approximately the same e. four times as much
The era of the New South __________
A) was very much like the South in the years before the Civil War B) emerged as a time of growing economic opportunities for blacks and poor whites C) saw a marked drop in the development of urban centers in the South D) was characterized by the persistence of rural poverty and racial divisiveness