Which of the following is true of the 1961 invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs?

A) The invasion was planned and executed by military experts in the Pentagon.
B) The invasion was based on the assumption that the Cuban people would rise up against Castro.
C) The invasion was elaborately planned and skillfully executed.
D) The invasion was launched only after several attempts by President Kennedy to negotiate with Castro had ended in failure.

Which of the following statements about slave ships is LEAST accurate?

A) Diseases such as smallpox and "the flux" frequently dealt mortal blows to both the cargoes and the crews of slave ships.
B) Although countries such as Britain enacted legislation to limit the number of slaves which a given ship could carry,slavers often crammed their holds with as many slaves as they could in defiance of the law.
C) The numbers of deaths on slave ships were high largely because slavers found it more profitable not to purchase fresh provisions or medicines before leaving the coast of Africa.
D) The trade in slaves was so profitable that European traders could reasonably expect to earn as much as a 100% profit from an investment in a slave ship.

Nat Turner was not a particularly religious man.

What labor choices were available to freed slaves at the end of the Civil War?

What biologist's work was used to justify theories of racial hierarchy in this period?

A) Charles Lyell
B) Henry Stanley
C) Charles Darwin
D) Alexander von Humboldt
E) Louis Pasteur

Which battle,which ended in February 1943,was the great turning point of the war in Europe?

A) Stalingrad
B) D-Day
C) Battle of the Bulge
D) Kursk
E) Warsaw