Which of the following is true concerning African Americans who won public office during Reconstruction?
a. Many came from the prewar educated African American elite.
b. Most were self-educated individuals who rose from slavery.
c. Many came from the North.
d. Most were illiterate and uneducated.
a
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Why were post-Ice Age Middle East settlers able to remain in one place without the development of agriculture?
a. They were able to forage and stockpile nuts and seeds and had herds of gazelles to help meet their additional nutritional needs. b. They lived on prairies that held inexhaustible stocks of bison. c. They harpooned seals, stuck pigs, and drove deer into pits or ponds. d. They lived in an environment filled with tundra-loving red deer, elk, and wild boar in wooded surroundings.
Anabaptists believed in all the following EXCEPT
a. spiritual purity required total abstinence from sex. b. infant baptism was invalid. c. polygamy. d. Judgment Day was at hand. e. the light of conscience required the reform of all human institutions.
The men who wrote the Constitution resolved the question of sovereignty by deciding that in the United States political power rested ultimately with the
A) national government B) state governments C) local governments D) people
The Monroe Doctrine declared that the United States would
a. prevent the establishment of new European colonies anywhere in the world b. help colonies in North and South America adopt a democratic form of government c. view European interference in the Americas as a threat to the national interest of the United States d. prevent other nations from trading with South American nations