What caused the population of Europe to swell during the eighteenth century?
a) People were healthier and lived longer.
b) Massive internal migration helped populations grow.
Consider This: Europeans in this period enjoyed a bigger and more varied diet. See 5.1: A Sudden Acceleration.
c) International trade meant exposure to many different germs, improving European immune systems.
Consider This: Europeans in this period enjoyed a bigger and more varied diet. See 5.1: A Sudden Acceleration.
d) Elites privatized land, increasing their farm sizes, so they never again worried about food shortages.
Consider This: Europeans in this period enjoyed a bigger and more varied diet. See 5.1: A Sudden Acceleration.
a) People were healthier and lived longer.
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Which of the following is true of advocates of the "common school" movement?
A. They advocated teacher training and a lengthening of the school year. B. They proposed that the state should assume responsibility for teaching lower-class children, but that upper- and middle-class children should be educated at home or in private institutions. C. They advocated the building of state-supported technical and vocational schools. D. They proposed that institutions of higher learning should be free to all who wanted to attend.
To what religion or denomination did Malcolm Little convert while in prison?
A) Baptist B) African Episcopalian Methodist C) Nation of Islam D) the Peace Mission Movement
As commander of the Union armies, General Ulysses S. Grant recommended a
A) policy of evasion and retreat, designed to lessen casualties and wear down the enemy. B) campaign of annihilation, using the North's superior might to destroy southern armies. C) tactic of hit-and-run maneuvers, offsetting the defensive advantages of southern armies. D) strategy of naval and land blockades, causing economic deprivation and discontent.
How did the rise of the Atlantic slave trade impact the development of race as a human social concept?
a) Powerful European states came to associate skin color and geographic origin, rather than social class or culture with what Europeans regarded as inherent racial categories. b) Race became a much more fluid concept than it had been in the past due to the complexity of the New World. c) European religious leaders quickly asserted the common humanity of all peoples. d) The association between race and skin color was made in the Americas but not exported to the rest of the Atlantic.