Among the major elements underlying the social crises of the 1600s was
a. that the Mediterranean area entered a steep economic decline as silver imports from Spanish colonies declined.
b. a "little ice age" occurred in the latter half of the 1200s, cutting food production and leading to famine.
c. a sharp European population increase after 1635 cut per-capita food availability by one-half.
d. increased gold imports from Africa, which led to serious economic inflation.
e. the onset of the White Death, a variant of the bubonic plague.
a
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A majority of New Immigrants settled
a. on farms in the upper Mississippi–Great Lakes region. b. in southern cities. c. in cities in the Northeast and Great Lakes states. d. on farms in the West. e. in Texas.
The excerpt below was printed in a magazine in the South in 1866: We should be satisfied to compel them to engage in coarse, common manual labor, and to punish them for dereliction of duty or non-fulfillment of their contracts with such severity, as to make them useful, productive laborers. Which of the following would the author of this excerpt most likely have supported?
a. the formation of the Freedmen's Bureau b. the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment c. the passage of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws d. the relocation of emancipated slaves to colonies in Africa
Because of the unusually high number of deaths in proportion to the number of troops engaged, ________ was the "bloodiest engagement" of the Revolutionary War
A) Saratoga B) Bunker Hill C) Trenton D) Yorktown
How did the years Philip II spent as a hostage in Thebes help him transform Macedonia into a major power?
A) He was trained in Greek military techniques. B) He learned how a monarchy worked. C) He gained knowledge of Greek philosophy. D) He learned how a democratic society worked. E) He saw that tribal factions weakened a state.