Author Question: Indian policy in early Pennsylvania can be best described as a. extremely harsh. b. bad at first ... (Read 24 times)

abarnes · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Indian policy in early Pennsylvania can be best described as

a. extremely harsh.
b. bad at first but improving later.
c. influenced mainly by the state-supported church.
d. fair.
e. None of these

Question 2

In Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery, the contemporary historian Eugene Genovese agrees with previous historians of American slavery that

a. this southern institution embraced a form of economic paternalism which reflected the need of southern slaveholders to control and coax labor out of their reluctant and recalcitrant investments.
b. southern slaveholders actually treated slaves with a kindly and caring paternalism throughout the lives of most slaves.
c. blacks were inferior and submissive by nature, facilitating their participation in the institution of southern slavery.
d. blacks did not abhor the coercive social and economic institution that enslaved them.
e. this southern institution was not underpinned by racist attitudes by southern slaveholders and most other southerners as well.