Most planters in the boom states of Alabama and Mississippi in the 1840s
a. were descended from old Virginia and South Carolina families.
b. lived in grand plantation mansions.
c. had begun to see the slave-labor system as a hindrance to economic progress.
d. were newly rich.
d
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a. worst months of the Great Depression. b. time it took for Congress to begin acting on President Roosevelt's plans for combating the Great Depression. c. flood of legislation passed by Congress in the first months of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. d. "lame-duck" period between Franklin Roosevelt's election and his inauguration. e. time that all banks were closed by FDR.
Who among the following was NOT at some time a participant in American communal or utopian living experiments?
A. John Humphrey Noyes B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. George Ripley D. Walt Whitman E. Robert Owen
Late nineteenth-century Populist farmers held grievances against a. railroads
b. state governments. c. corporations and processors who provided products and services for farmers. d. the two major political parties. e. banks.
Consequences of the Jameson Raid included all of the following EXCEPT
A) Rhodes was forced to resign as prime minister. B) the Orange Free State and Transvaal became allies. C) Transvaal began a modern army. D) Afrikaners were alienated from the British. E) none of the above.