Unlike in the English colonies in America, in New France
a. there were no popularly elected assemblies.
b. the crown was largely uninterested in colonial expansion.
c. the population grew very rapidly.
d. no valuable resources for exploitation existed.
e. the government encouraged religious dissenters to come to the colonies.
a
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France's support for slavery decreased after
a. the Haitian Revolution. b. the writing of the Declaration of the Rights of Man. c. Napoleon conscripted slaves to fight his wars against Britain, promising freedom in exchange for military service. d. sale of the Louisiana Territory reduced its need for plantation labor. e. the French economy focused more on wine production and handicrafts than industrialized manufacture.
Before the explorations in the 15th century, people of the medieval age had no idea that there were any lands to the west
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Like settlers in neighboring Virginia, settlers in Maryland
A) were denied access to land patents. B) were granted some local self-government in a representative assembly. C) devoted their energies to trading cattle and Indian slaves to the West Indies. D) left England to escape religious persecution.
As president, William Howard Taft was reluctant to file charges against corporate trusts
A) True B) False