Why did slavery come to be known as "the peculiar institution" in the first half of the nineteenth century?
a. It spawned new African American religious and cultural practices that white Americans found deeply alien.
b. As slavery faded away in the North, it was increasingly associated with the South, where it became more entrenched.
c. The three-fifths compromise in the Constitution seemed increasingly strange and outdated to Southerners.
d. As the free black population grew larger than the slave population in America, slaves became the exception rather the norm among African Americans.
e. The end of American participation in the international slave trade in 1807 made slavery seem a doomed throwback to colonial times.
b
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A) lack of clean water supplies B) use of streets as open sewers C) weak moral fortitude of the poor D) pollution caused by paper mills
Between 1820 and 1840, most of the immigrants to the United States came from __________.
a. Mexico and Canada b. China and Japan c. Italy and Greece d. the British Isles and German-speaking areas of Europe
The end of the Fourth Republic and the establishment of the Fifth Republic in France came about because of the
a. threat of a right-wing military coup. b. threat of a Communist revolution. c. loss of the French colony of Vietnam. d. student riots of 1968. e. workers' strike throughout France.
The practice of forcing captured sailors to serve in British naval crews was called what?
(A) impressment (B) sea-slaving (C) commandeering (D) requisitioning