__________ led the NAACP’s legal team in the Brown v. Board of Education case. A) Earl Warren B) Kenneth Clark C) Thurgood Marshall D) Byron White ANSWER C
A little less than half of all slaves imported to the New World were delivered to __________. A) Brazil B) the Caribbean C) British North America D) Mexico ANSWER Answer: B
English Calvinists believed that the Church of England __________. A) was too exclusive B) should be independent from the monarchy C) was the only true church D) was controlled by the papacy ANSWER B
The most obvious effect of slavery on the economy of the British Empire was seen in the __________. A) growth of ports and shipping B) high unemployment rates of nonslave agricultural workers in the Empire C) decline of investment in industrial development D) lack of industrial development ANSWER Answer: A
The Great Compromise settled the issue of representation in Congress by allowing A) each state two Senators and a number of Representatives that depended on its population. B) the large states to control the Senate and small states to control the House of Representatives. C) the state legislatures to choose both houses of Congress. D) […]
Which of these is one of the three principal ways in which slavery contributed to the economic development of Great Britain? A) Slavery encouraged the migration of poor white English people to North America. B) Slavery provided an enormous stimulus to the growth of European manufacturing. C) Slavery strengthened the military position of the British […]
The first city-state civilization arose in Italy due to the A) Carthaginians. B) Gauls. C) Latins. D) Greeks. E) Etruscans. ANSWER E
What did New England, New Spain, and New France have in common? A) They were all frontiers of inclusion. B) All of them were semi-democratic. C) They were all places with large slave populations. D) They all had an official church. ANSWER Answer: D
What was the motivation for German Lutherans to come to the middle colonies in the 1700s? a. Their primary goal was to improve their lives with more material wealth. b. They wanted to escape the war that was going on between Germany and France. c. They were seeking political freedom. d. They were seeking religious […]
In the 1730s and 1740s, __________ abandoned its tradition of fair dealing and perpetrated a series of fraudulent seizures of western lands from the Delaware Indians. A) Pennsylvania B) Massachusetts C) Virginia D) Maryland ANSWER Answer: A