Which of these describes the shoguns?
A) private armies
B) military rulers
C) the imperial bodyguard
D) chief ministers
B
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After the collapse of the Mauryan empire, India
A. returned to a series of regional kingdoms. B. suffered through a long period of chaos marked by a later Dravidian uprising. C. was absorbed into the expanding Chinese empire. D. was immediately reunified in a new empire. E. was united by a new wave of invaders.
Which of the following does NOT characterize the Young America movement of the 1840s and 1850s?
A) territorial expansion B) an aggressive foreign policy C) economic expansion and growth D) technological progress E) appraisal of American values
What happened in 1859 in Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
A) The federal arsenal was attacked in an unsuccessful attempt to start an uprising against slavery. B) A slave rebellion resulted in the deaths of eighteen participants. C) A group of white men raided a southern abolitionist office and killed five white and black anti-slavery protestors. D) White men and women seized eighteen slaves in order to forcibly emancipate them in Mexico. E) A group of white and black abolitionists killed three slave owners and wounded five others.
Which of the following accurately describes patterns of slaveholding in the antebellum South?
a) Between 25 and 40 percent of whites were slaveholders. b) Three-fourths of the white population owned at least 50 slaves. c) Slaveholding was least common in the states in the Cotton Belt. d) Slaveholding was least common in the Lower Mississippi Valley.