Which of the following best describes the Middle Passage?
a. pleasant
b. short
c. clean
d. horrific
e. quick
d
You might also like to view...
Francis Bacon believed that the goal of science is and should be __________.
A. human improvement B. confirmation of the Christian faith C. the production of any new knowledge D. to the benefit of those who create or sponsor scientific inquiries
What caused the population of Europe to swell during the eighteenth century?
a) People were healthier and lived longer. b) Massive internal migration helped populations grow. Consider This: Europeans in this period enjoyed a bigger and more varied diet. See 5.1: A Sudden Acceleration. c) International trade meant exposure to many different germs, improving European immune systems. Consider This: Europeans in this period enjoyed a bigger and more varied diet. See 5.1: A Sudden Acceleration. d) Elites privatized land, increasing their farm sizes, so they never again worried about food shortages. Consider This: Europeans in this period enjoyed a bigger and more varied diet. See 5.1: A Sudden Acceleration.
Which of the following statements about the witchcraft craze in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is FALSE?
A. it was exclusively an urban phenomenon. B. most of those accused of being witches were female. C. the hysteria surrounding the accusations of witchcraft led to as many as 100,000 witch trials. D. the unsettling nature of the times served to feed the frenzy over witchcraft allegations. E. the witchcraft hysteria was declining by the mid-1600s.
The Montgomery bus boycott ended when __________.
a. the federal government sent troops to Montgomery b. the bus company went bankrupt c. the protestors gave in d. the Supreme Court ruled that the segregated seating law was unconstitutional