Why did the English Separatists in Leiden decide to leave Europe and travel to the Americas?
A) They hoped to make a fortune in the slave trade.
B) They did not like the effect of Dutch culture on their children.
C) They were invited to do so by the English Crown.
D) The Dutch wanted them to leave.
Answer: B
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A) mayor of Los Angeles. B) governor of California. C) one of New York's representatives in the U.S. Senate. D) secretary of defense in the Richard Nixon administration.
What dilemma characterized U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East in the 1970s?
A) supporting Israel without provoking the Soviet Union B) supporting Israel without alienating oil-producing Arab nations C) supporting Egypt without angering Israel D) supporting Iran without endangering its relationship with Iraq E) cooperating with oil-producing countries without stirring up the Soviet Union
The Tokugawa shoguns exerted control over the daimyo by
a. heavily taxing their lands. b. requiring the daimyo to marry into merchant families. c. compelling the daimyo to maintain two residences, one in their own domain and one in Edo. d. forbidding the daimyo ever to appear at Edo, the center of the shogun's rule. e. transferring the daimyos' lands to the peasant class.
What did Henry George propose as a solution to poverty in modern society?
a. to let nature take its evolutionary course b. to replace all taxes with a "single tax" on land c. a socialist utopia in which the government owns the means of production d. to establish worker and farmer "cooperatives" to own the means of production e. to make churches the center of social reform instead of the government