"What Is the Third Estate?" was written by:
A. Sir Walter Scott.
B. Abbé Siéyès.
C. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord.
D. Edward FitzGerald.
E. Louis XVI.
B
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These illustrations of events in Congress in the 1850s provide evidence of
A) the fervent passions about slavery that made it difficult to find compromise. B) the Southern tendency toward brutality. C) the proclivity toward violence that made the Civil War inevitable. D) the weakness of antislavery Northerners. E) the righteous rage with which abolitionists pursued their cause.
Based on their work at Hull House, Jane Addams and Florence Kelley articulated the core Progressive belief that
A) collective bargaining and strikes were the most effective means of obtaining rights for workers. B) the nationalization of industry would be the key to improving working-class lives. C) the environment played an important role in shaping the lives of the poor. D) people were personally responsible for the conditions in which they lived. E) religious faith could effect more change than could practical reforms.
What would have been a practical outcome of the Emancipation Proclamation?
a. All Confederate slaves would be freed gradually. b. The freeing of slaves would weaken the Confederate war effort. c. Slaveowners would be compensated for their property. d. It took away from the propaganda of the abolitionists. e. It only affected slaves working on cotton plantations.
Which of the following formed the vanguard of progressive reform?
a. The new middle class b. American industrialists c. The working class d. Ethnic minorities