Issued in August of 1793, the lévee en masse was a(n):
A. military requisition on the entire population.
B. restriction on foreign imports.
C. attempt to fix prices in order to quell inflation.
D. call to the French population to rise up and defend the church.
E. a new income tax.
A
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The economic and social problems in seventeenth-century England that caused many English citizens to migrate to the New World were the result of
A. the collapse of the woolens industry. B. warfare between England and France. C. the government's decision to eliminate all tariffs on foreign goods. D. the doubling of the English population between 1530 and 1680.
Monasticism was not a factor in the spread of
a. Christianity. b. Buddhism. c. Islam. d. Daoism.
In 1948, Whittaker Chambers testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that former State Department official Alger Hiss was
A) an anarchist. B) a socialist. C) a Nazi. D) a communist. E) a homosexual.
Who believed that the intent of punishment should be to deter further crime, not to impose the will of God?
A. Voltaire B. Rousseau C. Wollstonecraft D. Beccaria E. Locke