The Luddites encouraged comparisons of themselves to the __________ in France.
A) squires
B) sans-culottes
C) gentry
D) potentates
B) sans-culottes
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In the presidential election of 1824, who received the most votes but failed to win a majority of either the popular or electoral votes (requiring the House of Representatives to select a president)?
A) William Crawford B) Andrew Jackson C) John Quincy Adams D) Henry Clay
This cartoon from the British magazine Punch indicates that after a Union warship removed two Confederate leaders off the British ship Trent, Lincoln decided to __________
A) release the prisoners in order to avoid war with Britain B) execute the prisoners and face a possible war with Britain C) keep the Confederates imprisoned for the duration of the war D) stop exports to Britain because they sympathized with the Confederacy
Which of the following was true of Benjamin Banneker?
a) He was a skilled mathematician. b) He was born in slavery. c) He was close friends with Thomas Jefferson. d) He gained fame as a spiritual poet.
Which of the following was most likely to be elected to political office in the South during Reconstruction?
A) a southern black minister who had been free before the war B) a field hand who escaped and joined the Union army during the war C) an older slave who was freed when the war came to an end D) a northern black who came South after the war