Which of the following statements best describes a major change that took place in the new netherlands after the duke of york claimed the colony? a) many wealthy colonists were able to purchase and sell enslaved workers for the first time. b) many female colonists, many women in particular, gained more rights and greater freedoms. c) many colonists had to pay heavy taxes for the first time and suffered financially as a result. d) many colonists gained religious freedom, and jewish settlers in particular had more legal rights.

Read a report of the paris medical faculty from 1348 about the plague. we can say that the main cause of this pestilence was and is the configuration of the heavens. in 1345, at 1: 00 in the afternoon of march 20th, there was a major conjunction of three planets in the constellation of aquarius. this conjunction, along with others like it and the eclipse caused a deadly corruption of the air around us. what is the most likely reason this document would be important to a historian’s study of the black death? a) it shows the importance of astronomy in medicine today. b) it shows how medicine once differed in paris and london. c) it shows how the plague’s cause was interpreted in the past. d) it shows the desperation to find a cause of the black death.

Why do you think alexander hamilton wanted to pay back the bonds from the confederation government

Which of the following is true of the peace treaty? a. russia lost more territory than germany. b. germany was allowed to keep alsace-lorraine. c. italy gained all of the austrian territory.