Under the common law doctrine of femme couverte, _________.
a. women were considered economically autonomous
b. wives were their husbands’ chattel
c. women could buy and sell property
d. wives did not have the power to initiate a divorce
b. wives were their husbands’ chattel
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A) use military power to collect revenues. B) engage in an undeclared naval war with Britain. C) remove the Cherokees from their homelands. D) appoint cabinet officials without congressional approval. E) move all Native Americans onto reservations.
Which of these replaced Mali in the fifteenth century?
A) Ghana B) Songhay C) Ile-Ife D) the Kongo kingdom
How did the Great Awakening affect the institution of slavery?
A) It sparked abolitionism among certain groups of colonists. B) It was used as a primary means of justifying the enslavement of Africans. C) It helped spread Christianity among slave populations. D) It informed the manner in which slave owners treated their slaves. E) It led to the construction of churches on slave plantations.
Theodore Roosevelt became president when William McKinley was assassinated.
a. true b. false