After reading the selection from Christopher Columbus's journal, can you tell what Columbus's motives were for exploration? (See Textbook: Sources from the Past: Christopher Columbus's First Impressions of the American Peoples.)
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All of the following were TRUE about the Constitutional Convention delegates' work on the judiciary EXCEPT
A) the delegates spent almost no time on the judiciary. B) the delegates created a Supreme Court and lower federal courts. C) the delegates considered, but dropped, an idea to have the president and the judges of the Supreme Court together consider the constitutionality of federal and state laws. D) the Supreme Court's role as the arbiter of the constitutionality of state and federal laws was detailed in Article III of the Constitution.
Why did many progressives advocate restricting immigration to the United States?
A) ?? They concluded that since the immigrant city bred problems, immigrants should be excluded. B) ?? They believed that urban planners had to be given time to clear the slums and redesign the boulevards so that immigrants would see America at its best. C) ?? They believed that it was cruel to allow immigrants to come to America if they were going to have to work in unhealthy factories. D) ?? They believed that until the U.S. economy had been reformed, it could never expand rapidly enough to incorporate waves of immigrants. E) ?? They feared that immigrants would support labor unions and thereby reduce the influence of individual progressive organizations.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1973 indictment of the Soviet system was in his critical book
A. Notes from Underground. B. Dr. Zhivago. C. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. D. Gulag Archipelago. E. Crime and Punishment.
Polygyny is a form of
A) polygamy. B) polyandry. C) patrilocal households. D) matrilocal households.