Which of the following statements about slave ships is LEAST accurate?
a. Diseases such as smallpox and “the flux” frequently dealt mortal blows to both the cargoes and the crews of slave ships.
b. Although countries such as Britain enacted legislation to limit the number of slaves which a given ship could carry, slavers often crammed their holds with as many slaves as they could in defiance of the law.
c. The numbers of deaths on slave ships were high largely because slavers found it more profitable not to purchase fresh provisions or medicines before leaving the coast of Africa.
d. The trade in slaves was so profitable that European traders could reasonably expect to earn as much as a 100% profit from an investment in a slave ship.
c. The numbers of deaths on slave ships were high largely because slavers found it more profitable not to purchase fresh provisions or medicines before leaving the coast of Africa.
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a. the growing moral criticism of segregation by white church leaders. b. blacks' increasing awareness during and after the war of the gap between American democratic ideals and racial practices. c. the appointment of Thurgood Marshall, chief legal counsel of the NAACP, to the Supreme Court. d. Dwight Eisenhower's commitment to civil rights. e. the agitation of A. Philip Randolph.
Much of what is known about China in the first half of the first millennium CE comes from Indian Hindu monks.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The people in trade in North Africa who were not nomads were the
a. Saba b. Lebanese. c. Garamantes. d. Mauritanians. e. Phoenicians.
The Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933 did NOT
A) give the president increased powers over the Federal Reserve System. B) permit solvent banks to reopen under government supervision. C) allow the RFC to purchase the stock of troubled banks to keep them operating until they could be reorganized. D) guarantee payment of all individual bank deposits up to $25,000.