How do you suppose southern planters could lead a rebellion against an English government they feared was threatening their rights and liberties, and, at the same time, hold thousands of blacks as their slaves? Explain this apparent inconsistency
What will be an ideal response?
The inconsistency was apparent to many and it bothered them. Most, though, were able to draw a distinction between the racial slavery they controlled and the political slavery they feared from Britain. As British subjects and members of the colonial elite, they had rights and liberties; slaves were not British subjects and were assumed to be an inferior people.
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A) South America. B) New England. C) southern ports. D) industrializing Britain.
Why did emperors protect Jews from Christian attacks but not pagans?
A) Theodosius ordered that Jewish religious practices be tolerated and the Christians adhered to this, but they were still forbidden to seek converts or build synagogues. B) Humiliation instead of outright destruction was key because they worshipped the same deity. C) Jews were already being punished by God. Therefore, no further destruction was required. D) All of these E) None of these
Historian Walter LaFeber saw the American acquisition of an overseas empire in the 1890s as __________.
a. an aberration b. the natural culmination of American history up to that point c. the greatest crime ever committed by the U.S. government d. an expression of the ideals of liberty and freedom
What was the goal of most Native groups in the decades following the Civil War?
A) the destruction of all white communities B) full civil rights C) assimilation D) independence from whites