The French Revolution resulted in a society in which
A) the mandate of the people legitimized civil authority.
B) the leaders were out of touch with the lives of the masses.
C) women and men had equal rights.
D) both title and talent mattered.
E) commoners could become aristocrats.
Answer: A
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All of the following statements provide reasons why any other type of show would NOT have been successful EXCEPT A) a realistic presentation of the West would need to have African-American, Mexican, and Latino cowboys. B) because cowboys and Indians rarely fought, those scenes would have had to be eliminated. C) Annie Oakley was not truly representative of Western women who had much more responsibility than sharp shooting. D) realism was what people came to the show to see.
The neighbors of the Spartans who were free inhabitants and required to pay taxes and perform military service but who were not citizens of Sparta were
A) hoplites. B) perioikoi. C) kouros. D) helots. E) ephors.
Which of the following best explains the deterioration of the working and living conditions of workers in New England textile mills in the 1830s and 1840s? a. Living and working conditions deteriorated primarily because of the economic depression of the late 1830s. b. Working and living conditions deteriorated primarily because of the growing labor surplus. c. A depression led management to
focus more on profits than on providing decent working and livingconditions for the workers. d. Competition from English imports was the primary reason for the deterioration of working and livingconditions.
The most serious economic problem for the South was ____________________
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