Who were the participants in the scientific societies such as the Royal Society?
a. Men
b. People of financial means
c. University-educated students of science
d. People who believed they were a new class to interpret the natural world
e. All of these
e
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The Hundred Years' War was caused by all of the following except
A) the prohibition of female succession to the French throne. B) English claims to French territories. C) the evolution of nationalism in both England and France. D) fears of the growing power of the English throne and of a weak king at the time. E) English superiority in population and wealth.
In the 1930s, the Congress of Industrial Organizations
A. would not accept women or blacks as members. B. confined its organizing to the steel and coal industries. C. refused to get involved in organizing the automobile industry. D. grew out of a dispute within the American Federation of Labor. E. was less militant than the American Federation of Labor.
The story of the "Scottsboro boys" illustrates the point that the Depression
A. inflamed racial prejudice. B. was especially devastating for young children of unemployed fathers. C. increased the number of homeless, vagrant males. D. caused a return of old-fashioned outlaws in the West.
In the Supreme Court cases New Jersey v. T.L.O. and Tinker v. Des Moines School District, the Court ruled that
(a) individual student rights are more important than a safe school environment (b) students can be expelled from school without a hearing (c) civil liberties can be both protected and limited in schools (d) the Bill of Rights does not apply to minors