Author Question: When issuing the code that stated All rogues and vagabondsshall be deemed and considered vagrants, ... (Read 34 times)

savannahhooper · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

What was the most important achievement of the Confederation Congress?

A) the development of paper money to fund the government
B) plans for the settlement and eventual statehood of the Northwest Territory
C) resolving economic problems for the farmers in western Massachusetts
D) creating a plan for the joint administration of western lands with Britain

Question 2

How would an American traditionalist have best described this 1927 photomontage of Charles Lindbergh's arrival in Paris on the Spirit of St. Louis?

A) Lindbergh's flight illustrated the nation's industrial march forward.
B) Lindbergh's flight renewed faith in the benefits of technology.
C) Lindbergh exhibited the same adventurous spirit that propelled pioneers across the West.
D) Lindbergh demonstrated that individual initiative still mattered in American society.

Question 3

When issuing the code that stated All rogues and vagabondsshall be deemed and considered vagrants, why did the Mississippi legislature define vagrancy in such broad terms?

A) They believed the general public understood the meaning of this term.
B) This allowed white Southerners to arrest freedmen at will and curtail their freedom.
C) They did not want to violate the provisions of the Thirteenth Amendment.
D) This made it easier to condemn freedmen for more severe crimes.