Instructions:Please define the following key terms.
privateer
What will be an ideal response?
Private vessel commissioned by a state to attack the commercial and naval ships of another country
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The greatest concerns of slave trader Thomas Phillips seem to be
a. the health of his men and his own profits. b. the profits available to distribute among his men and the health of his crew. c. the health of the Africans and his risk of catching a dreadful disease. d. his financial well-being and personal comfort.
Which of the following represents an accurate description of the evolution of slavery in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina after the Revolution?
A) Slavery died out in these four states after the Revolution. B) Very few planters heeded the revolutionary language of freedom and freed their slaves. C) Some slaves who had run away during the war managed to establish new identities and maintain their freedom especially in cities like Baltimore and Richmond. D) Most slaves who had run away during the war returned to their plantations to return to a slave life very similar to the one that existed before the Revolution.
The French were deeply suspicious of German expansion because of
A. the rise of Adolf Hitler. B. the inability of the French to forget their humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. C. German support for Basque separatists. D. Germany's role in the final defeat of Napoleon. E. the solid total alliance between the British and the Germans.
The lowering of tariffs on foreign grain indicated the
a. power of the growing urban factory workers. b. decline in the power of the agricultural sector. c. growing power of the urban middle class. d. importance of American grain on the world market. e. growing population and inability of domestic wheat production to fulfill domestic needs.