Even though property restrictions were banned in several states from the North and West during the 1820s to increase universal white male suffrage, why did many African Americans in these states lose their right to vote?
A) These states required African Americans to pay higher poll taxes.
B) These states adopted a high property requirement for African Americans so they could vote.
C) These states required that African Americans had to be literate in order to vote.
D) These states adopted new laws that only allowed African Americans to vote in local elections.
B
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a. preferred urban life. b. were offered high-paying jobs. c. were welcomed by the people living there. d. were too poor to move west and buy land. e. had experience in urban politics.
Which statement is true regarding Caliph al-Mahdi and the problem of succession in the Abbasid dynasty?
A) He specified the rule of primogeniture, the succession of the oldest son. B) He accepted the Shi'a doctrine that only the person with the most direct relationship to Muhammad should succeed. C) He accepted the radical proposition that only a man of demonstrable Islamic purity should succeed. D) He failed to resolve the problem of dynastic succession, with disastrous results.
During the New Culture era, radical reformists tended to see traditional culture as
A. the essence of China’s true nature. B. a Western invention. C. quaint and largely inconsequential. D. a tool of feudal oppression. E. China’s only hope for the future.
Which of the following was the first permanent European settlement in the area that became the United States?
a) St. Augustine b) Plymouth c) New Orleans d) Jamestown