Besides ideology and religion, what explains increased manumission in the Upper South?
A) fear of a growing slave population
B) pressure from foreign powers who disapproved of slavery
C) concern that federal law would abolish slavery
D) a shift to less labor-intensive wheat crops
Answer: D
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a. Jacobins b. sans-culottes c. Committee for Public Safety d. Girondin e. feuillants
Which of the following technologies was used, but did not play a major part in, the Civil War?
A. railroads B. repeating rifles C. submarines D. the telegraph E. cannons
Which of the following is not true about the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
A) ?They established a system similar to that of Virginia's headright system. B) ?There was no peasantry in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. C) ?Families made up the majority of the early migrants. D) ?Settlers in Massachusetts Bay had a longer lifespan that those who settled in the Chesapeake. E) ?They found it immoral to appropriate Indian land, so they legally purchased it from the natives.
Ghettos were the
A) bad neighborhoods in medieval towns where the most crime takes place. B) French quarter of a town. C) area of city or town in which merchants predominately live. D) areas of a town where the Jews confined themselves since they could not hold land. E) None of these