What Statement Accurately Depicts the Legal Status of People of African

question 121

Multiple Choice

What statement accurately depicts the legal status of people of African descent in the Chesapeake prior to 1660?

• A) Blacks had rights equal to those of whites.
• B) Blacks were forbidden all access to the courts.
• C) Blacks were already rigidly defined as enslaved people.
• D) Blacks' rights were ambiguous, allowing some Africans to become landowners with servants or slaves.
• E) It was law that only Africans and no English people could work in the tobacco fields.

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Definitions:

Resistance Stage

The second phase of the general adaptation syndrome, where the body adapts to a stressor with increased resistance, but at a high cost to physical and mental resources.

General Adaptation Syndrome

A three-stage response (alarm, resistance, exhaustion) that the body goes through when exposed to prolonged stress, described by Hans Selye.

Alarm Phase

The initial reaction of the body's stress response, involving the activation of the sympathetic nervous system.

Chronic Stress

is a condition of continued and persistent stress over an extended period, which can have detrimental effects on one's health and well-being.