To obtain sufficient manpower for their armies, both the North and the South not only called for volunteers but also instituted, for the first time in U.S. history, the controversial device of a ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
draft
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The Black Panther Party of Self Defense was founded in 1966 in
a. Detroit, Michigan. b. Baltimore, Maryland. c. Oakland, California. d. Chicago, Illinois.
Which of the following was a method used by young men to avoid being drafted into the war effort?
A. declaring that they were a conscientious objector B. fleeing to Canada or Mexico C. feigning insanity D. All these answers are correct.
The events surrounding John and Sarah Hughson are illustrative of __________
A) Quaker antislavery work B) the colonial government’s calm and measured response to turmoil C) the role of slave revolts in Charleston D) cooperation between poor blacks and whites
On what basis did historian Davis Eltis claim that “In terms of immigration alone . . . America was an extension of Africa rather than Europe until the late nineteenth century”?
a. Africa had a much greater impact than Europe did on nineteenth-century American culture. b. Between 1650 and 1831, more Africans than Europeans came to the Americas. c. Africa was physically closer than Europe to America. d. Africans made a greater contribution than Europeans did to the economies of the Americas.