Based on the experiences of Anthony Johnson and Francis Payne, all of the following statements about blacks in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake are true EXCEPT
a. free black men sometimes married white women.
b. free black men sometimes obtained substantial property holdings.
c. free black men sometimes successfully sued white men in court.
d. free black men sometimes held elective office in colonial governments.
d. free black men sometimes held elective office in colonial governments.
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Emma Goldman was arrested under the Comstock laws for
A) a mailing campaign. B) printing birth control information. C) printing anarchist pamphlets. D) lecturing on birth control.
In the feudal system, a grant of land that was made from the lord in exchange for vassal obligations was a
A) wardship. B) stewardship. C) manor. D) forfeiture. E) fief.
The coming of Islam to South Asia signaled an epochal historical change because Islam
a. was the most important element in Indian civilization during the period. b. had no competition among other religious practices and faiths. c. became the majority religion in most regions of South Asia. d. None of these answers are correct.
Alexander III believed that
a. social reforms were more important than political reforms. b. diversity built national strength. c. the powers of the zemstvos should be increased. d. Russia needed to move toward democracy. e. his father's reforms had been a mistake.