Main Ideas

a. How did the cotton gin lead to the spread of slavery? (8.7.2)

b. How was life different for plantation slaves, city slaves, and free blacks in the South? (8.7.4)

c. What were three ways that enslaved people resisted slavery? (8.7.2)

In his Turkish Letters, the Hungarian diplomat Ghislain de Busbecq expresses concerns that A) the Ottoman Turks are technologically superior to Europeans. B) Ottoman troops are numerically superior to European forces.

What was the name given to a person who takes a financial risk in hopes of making a huge profit?

By the 1850s the constitution originally framed as an instrument of the national unity, had become a source of sectional discord and tension and ultimately contribute to the failure of the union it had created. assess the validity of this statement

The painters of which chinese dynasty resembled the renaissance masters of europe because they were revered and copied for many generations?

How did car production compare to truck production in the 1920s? Car production sharply increased through the 1920s compared to truck production. Both car production and truck production rose at roughly the same rate.

Why would immigrants want to settle near other people from their country

What actions are part of citizen's responsibility to participate in government?

What did the portuguese attempt to achieve?

One president gave much power to the Civil Service Commission. He was a reformer and his reforms probably cost him the nomination for a second term.

By what year was almost all of north america free from foreign/colonial rule