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Based on your reading of The Diligent, what were the financial incentives that motivated Europeans to participate in the slave trade? What incentives led Africans to supply Europeans with slaves? Based on the material presented in the book, do you think one side had an advantage over the other in establishing the terms upon which…

History American Yawp Chapter 24   Why were Americans of Japanese ancestry incarcerated during the war? What factors were at play during the interim between the attack on Pearl Harbor in December and the decision to issue Executive Order 9066 the following February? How would you characterize the nature of confinement of Japanese Americans in the…

(Q1) -Which statement provides the best definition of the Enlightenment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and America?   A)  “Enlightenment!” is what Benjamin Franklin exclaimed to his son, the day he discovered how electricity works by observing a lightning strike. Thereafter, that became the expression used by scientists and inventors.    B)  The Enlightenment is the burst…

1) Cincinnati and St. Louis grew rapidly due to inter-regional trade. False True 2) What was an irony about the cotton gin? a. The inventor of the machine was from the North. b. Slaves did not really need it. c. Cotton demand actually decreased. d. Most slaves did not know how to work it. e….

Which English scholar, well known for his translation of the Bible into English, was executed in Antwerp in 1536?

1.) In Plessy versus Ferguson, what were the arguments for “separate but equal” legislation? What were the arguments against this legislation? What is a dissent? What are the implications of Harlan’s dissent? What is Harlan’s fundamental objection to the decision? What is Harlan’s view of legal distinctions based on racial considerations? What does he feel…