In the eighteenth century, population growth and societal pressures affected colonial society in all of the following ways EXCEPT that
A) some colonists became tenant farmers to earn money to buy their own land.
B) many colonists relocated to the western edges of the colonies to claim land.
C) some young adults waited to acquire their own land before marrying.
D) more and more colonists moved out of the cities to escape overcrowding.
E) the richest colonists owned an increasingly larger percentage of America's wealth.
D
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What did the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke involve?
A) discrimination against a black student attempting to enroll in law school B) a white man who claimed that he was not allowed to vote with black students C) a white man who said that the University of California's admission requirements discriminated against him D) two groups of black and white students who refused to attend classes together
The major gold camps of California were along the Mother Lode which was:
A) along the southern coast. B) near the Oregon border. C) in the Sierra Nevada foothills. D) by the Mexican/California border.
The Great Western Schism originated over
a. whether the seat of Catholicism should be in Rome or Constantinople. b. whether or not women could be priests. c. rival papal claimants between Avignon and Rome. d. whether or not priests could be married. e. the formation of different types of monasteries (Franciscan, Dominican, Cappucin, etc).
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison thought of commerce and industry as
a. the foundation of a national economy. b. inherently sinful and anti-Republican. c. a handmaiden to agriculture. d. a way out of the Southern dependence on plantation slavery.