Which of the following was NOT a factor leading up to the storming of the Bastille?
a. hope for positive change
b. the bombardment of a working class neighborhood
c. distress due to the soaring price of bread
d. anxiety that the National Assembly would be dissolved
e. fear of an aristocratic and royal plot against the Third Estate
b
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The Election of 1856 was:
A) two separate contests for the North and South. B) a return to power of the Whig Party. C) a victory for Fillmore. D) a setback for Democrats.
What environmentally damaging policy was supported by the 1902 Newlands or National Reclamation Act?
A) irrigation of farm lands B) hard rock mining C) desert cattle ranching D) eradication of "pest" wolves and coyotes
Which of the following is NOT a difference between Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism?
a. Unlike Theravada, Mahayana Buddhism venerates the Buddha as a god. b. Unlike Theravada, Mahayana Buddhism holds that spiritually developed people (bodhisattvas) help others to reach nirvana, instead of emphasizing that individuals were on their own. c. Unlike Theravada, Mahayana Buddhism became a popular religion of salvation. d. Unlike Theravada, Mahayana Buddhism instituted a formal priesthood whose rituals were meant to help people reach nirvana.
The proportion of white southern families in the southern population that owned slaves was:
a. 90 percent. b. 25 percent. c. 50 percent. d. 75 percent. e. none of these choices.