What was the significance of Margaret Thatcher's term in office as British prime minister? What trends in European politics did she represent or respond to?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Thatcher's significance as first female prime minister of a major European state
2. How Thatcher's policies challenged prevailing attitudes toward the welfare state
3. Thatcher's redirection of British policy, which was accepted by the Labour Party
4. Thatcher's curbing of the power of trade unions
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The National American Woman Suffrage Association
a. achieved its goal in 1898. b. conducted an integrated campaign for equal rights. c. abandoned the goals of the original suffrage movement. d. proved unable to reform marriage property laws. e. was founded by early suffrage pioneers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When the English gained control over New Netherland
a. the autocratic spirit survived. b. democracy replaced the old autocratic system. c. the colony grew quickly. d. new leaders distributed land grants in a more democratic fashion. e. they did so with great bloodshed.
Examine the growth of worldwide trade from 1500 to 1800. Discuss the rise and implications of a global trading system.
What will be an ideal response?
Which explorer completed the first known circumnavigation of the earth?
a. Amerigo Vespucci b. Ferdinand Magellan c. John Cabot d. Christopher Columbus e. Vasco da Gama