"The stench of the hold while we were on the coast was so intolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time, and some of us had been permitted to stay on deck for the fresh air . . . " This quotation probably describes
a. an American warship during the American Revolution
b. the Mayflower
c. an Irish immigrant ship in the early 1700s
d. a slave ship bound for the Americas
e. a German immigrant ship in the early 1700s
Answer: d. a slave ship bound for the Americas
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The September Massacres were carried out primarily by which revolutionary group?
a. Jacobins b. sans-culottes c. Committee for Public Safety d. Girondin e. feuillants
The “God” aspect of “Gold, God, and Glory” refers partly to European Christianity’s rivalry with
a. secularism. b. Islam. c. Buddhism. d. Confucianism. e. atheism.
Compulsory elementary education included all of the following except it
A. was supported by employers' growing needs for skilled workers. B. was predominantly administered by female teachers after the 1880s. C. dramatically increased adult literacy in western Europe. D. produced a new mass culture that, in turn, created new forms of mass leisure. E. sparked revolution in Germany against Otto von Bismarck.