Author Question: With the franchise in Massachusetts extended to all adult males who belonged to Puritan ... (Read 37 times)

vicotolentino · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

With the franchise in Massachusetts extended to all adult males who belonged to Puritan congregations, the proportion of qualified voters (approximately 2/5) in this colony as compared to England was

a. larger.
b. somewhat smaller.
c. about the same.
d. not known.
e. a great deal smaller.

Question 2

All of the following are true statements about free blacks except

a. they were banned from entering several northern states.
b. they were always vulnerable to being hijacked back into slavery in the South.
c. slaveholders feared that they were living examples of what might be achieved with emancipation.
d. in the North, they forged ties with the Irish, who similarly worked in menial jobs.
e. most states denied them the right to vote.