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jenna1

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Question 1

Residents living in territories
 
  A) did not enjoy full citizenship rights.
  B) were not represented in Congress.
  C) could not vote in presidential elections
  D) were governed by appointed, not elected governors.
  E) All of these are correct.

Question 2

A key economic consequence of the plague was
 
  A) the rapid expansion of European civic banking to rebuild industry.
  B) a decline in manorialism and weakening of feudalism as noble landlords desperate for cash converted peasant labor service to market rents, freeing their serfs.
  C) the more frequent bankruptcy of monarchs as they emptied their treasuries trying to provide poor relief.
  D) the very slow enrichment of middling peasant laborers who began to dominate rural communities.
  E) a long-term trend to abandon cities for the more secure rural environment.

Question 3

Among those who gained access to land by way of the Homestead Act and other land distribution programs were
 
  A) Mexican Americans.
  B) Indians.
  C) women.
  D) freedmen.
  E) All of these are correct.

Question 4

Postplague socioeconomic relations between rich and poor in Europe
 
  A) improved noticeably as Christians sought to make peace with one another to please an angry God.
  B) did not alter from their preplague character.
  C) deteriorated because a surplus of workers resulted in a dramatic downturn in wages.
  D) improved radically as the economy entered into a period of sustained prosperity.
  E) got much worse as the positions of landlords deteriorated, and they sought to limit the gains of the peasants.

Question 5

The Homestead Act provided land ownership to those who built improvements on the land and lived on it for ___________________ __ years.
 
  A) five
  B) seven
  C) ten
  D) twelve
  E) fifteen



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nhea

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Answer 1

E

Answer 2

B

Answer 3

E

Answer 4

E

Answer 5

A




jenna1

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Reply 2 on: Sep 21, 2019
Great answer, keep it coming :)


lkanara2

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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