Wealthy Roman took possession of public land, legally and illegally. This led to a greater division between rich and poor and thus to the land-reform proposals of ________
A. Cicero
B. Julius Caesar
C. Marius
D. Sulla
E. Tiberius Gracchus
Answer: E
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A) responded enthusiastically B) agreed to send money and supplies but not men C) were ambivalent about joining up D) rioted against fighting a war to free slaves
The Wilson administration came to see American exports to the Allies as
a. a contradiction of American ideals. b. necessary to the economic well-being of the United States. c. illegal under international law. d. evidence of the immorality of American business interests.
On the eve of the Reformation
A) Catholics had no interest in correcting abuses in the church. B) the popes opposed all suggestions for reforms. C) there was real confusion about what Luther had meant. D) no new religious orders had been founded for centuries. E) little had changed religiously since the Middle Ages.
To what was French historian Alexis de Tocqueville referring when he wrote, “it is possible to foresee that the freer the whites in America are, the more they will seek to isolate themselves”?
A) The more rights and liberties whites obtain, the less willing they are to share those rights with others such as African or Native Americans. B) Democracy breeds in people (white Americans especially) an isolationist attitude, causing them to eschew involvement in foreign affairs. C) As all whites gain rights and liberties despite social or economic status, they will be more willing to share those rights with nonwhites. D) In order to gain rights and liberties, whites must oppress others, namely African and Native Americans. E) Because white Americans are isolated from African and Native Americans, they do not see that they do not share the same rights and liberties.