What was the goal of the British at Lexington and Concord?
a. To wage war against the colonists
b. To enforce the "Intolerable Acts"
c. To seize the colonial militia's supply of gunpowder
d. To arrest Thomas Paine and John Adams
e. To shut down the First Continental Congress
c
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How did the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin influence white Americans?
A) The book forced many northerners to understand the horrors of slavery. B) The book inspired little reaction in the South because no one heard about it there. C) Northern whites mounted military assaults against the Supreme Court after reading the book. D) Southern whites abolished slavery in several states after reading the book.
After George Washington became president, Congress created the first three executive departments, which became known as the ____.
a. cabinet b. treasure
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
A. enabled Mao to regain control of the party after the disastrous Great Leap Forward. B. attempted to use conservative party members to “cleanse” China of “impure socialist elements.” C. created an academically more demanding curriculum in schools that stressed cogent thought and scientific training. D. fostered literacy in rural China. E. was directed mainly against middle-class Soviet technicians working in China.
In the conduct of the Hundred Years' War, a sure sign of feudalism's decline was the
A) inability of feuding kings to raise armies of knights. B) reliance of kings on artillery as the main component of royal armies. C) decisive role of peasant foot soldiers rather than mounted knights. D) clear intention of kings to destroy the estates of their own vassals. E) use of heavier armor and larger horses.