Which of the following statements about the hardening of racial restrictions and slave codes in English North America is LEAST accurate?
a. Slave codes protected the interests of masters by declaring that the children of enslaved mothers would themselves be slaves.
b. Because the English government developed slave policies for its empire, slave codes were consistent throughout the colonies.
c. As slave codes hardened, the justification for slavery shifted from religion to race.
d. As the seventeenth century progressed, freedom was increasingly seen as a natural state for whites and enslavement a natural state for blacks.
b. Because the English government developed slave policies for its empire, slave codes were consistent throughout the colonies.
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Why did the discovery of gold and the population explosion in California immediately affect political rather than economic or social issues?
A) Californians wrote both a proslavery and an antislavery state constitution. B) The state government would have to determine if the Californio ranchers still had title to their lands. C) Both proslavery and antislavery settlers were fighting a series of violent conflicts there. D) Congress would have to decide if California would be a free or slave state.
The British Navigation Acts were designed to protect English merchants from foreign competition in the colonies.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The prime minister who furthered British imperial ambitions by acquiring Canada and India was
A) Robert Walpole. B) William Pitt the Elder. C) Lord Bute. D) William Pitt the Younger. E) Robert Clive.
When pharaohs did not control vast regions in ancient Egypt, they were classified as "intermediate periods." How are periods of strong governments in Egypt classified?
a. Ruler periods. b. Empires. c. City-states. d. Kingdoms. e. Stratified states.