Aside from the question of taxation, one of the gravest problems that colonists in the American colonies had with Britain concerned the potential
a. abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic trading area.
b. desire of Britain to extend its control into the Ohio River Valley.
c. lack of political interest that Britain had in the government of the American colonies.
d. failure of Britain to provide enough troops for the adequate protection of the American colonists in the towns and cities.
a
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What made the Border States different from other states in the Union?
A) There was more pro-Union support in most of these states than in others further north. B) They contained 80 percent of the Union's factories. C) They had nearly half of the Union's white male population. D) They were slave-holding states.
What is the main reason for the deaths of most white sailors during the "middle passage"?
A. They died from African diseases contracted from the slaves. B. They died from exposure to the elements when their ships were stalled at sea. C. They were killed by mutinying slaves. D. They were killed by pirates who seized slave ships.
Burying the battlefield dead was part of the burden of soldiering, usually borne by
A. the victors. B. local residents. C. northern civilians. D. the defeated.
What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s?
a. cheap electric power b. fire safety standards c. the invention of the elevator d. new methods of making steel