European intellectual life in the eighteenth century was marked by
A) growing anti-Semitism and sharper persecution of minorities in universities.
B) the emergence of secularization and a search to find the natural laws governing human life.
C) sophism and the mockery of past traditions.
D) a return of monastic schools and medieval modes of training religious thinkers.
E) an intense pessimism about the possibility of human progress.
B
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The principal Americans who negotiated the peace terms with the British were
A. John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, and Samuel Huntington. B. Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and John Adams. C. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay. D. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. E. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.
Why did the Klan lose significance in American politics in the late 1920s?
What will be an ideal response?
The Dominion of New England supported the colonists' claims for the "rights of Englishmen."
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which statement best describes how the early French colonists viewed Native Americans?
A) as obstacles to dominating the fur trade B) as potential slaves C) as valuable economic partners D) as obstacles to settling the land in North America E) as likely converts to Christianity