Seventeenth-century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by
a. selling slaves to reduce productive labor.
b. selling land to reduce their volume of production.
c. growing more tobacco to increase their volume of production.
d. planting corn and wheat instead of tobacco.
e. releasing unneeded indentured servants early.
Question 2
Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) annexation of Texas, (B) Webster-Ashburton Treaty, (C) settlement of the Oregon boundary, and (D) Aroostook War.
a. A, B, D, C
b. B, D, C, A
c. D, B, A, C
d. C, A, B, D
e. A, D, C, B
Painting of a Colonial American boy holding a pet squirrel.
Indian Tobacco
Early in the twentieth century, when malnutrition was common, companies such as this one advertised
Wang Guochen, c. nineteenth century
Apollo Belvedere (detail), Roman copy after a 4th-century BCE Greek original.
Prices in Japan before and after Opening to Trade