Although he invented analytic geometry, whose most important contribution was to develop a scientific method that relied more on deduction?
A. René Descartes
B. Francis Bacon
C. Isaac Newton
D. Johannes Kepler
Answer: A
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The argument over the creation of the Bank of the United States focused on which of the following questions?
A. Does the nation need a central banking institution? B. Should the bank be allowed to issue the nation's currency? C. Does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to create the bank? D. Should the bank be privately owned, publicly owned, or privately and publicly owned?
Which statement best describes the disparity in resources between the North and the South during the Civil War?
a. The South had more textiles and firearms factories than the North did. b. The South had more miles of railroad tracks than the North did. c. The North had more factories and industrial workers than the South did. d. The North was unable to access its immigrant population for manpower.
In 1789, the Estates-General was
A) Louis XVI's primary advisory body, often consulted by the king on matters of state. B) in unanimous agreement that only radical changes could solve France's problems. C) dominated by the First Estate, composed mostly of urban lawyers. D) unanimously in agreement about the necessity of immediately creating a new representative assembly. E) divided over the issue of voting by orders or by head.
In the years surrounding the 1963 March on Washington, African Americans in the North and West
a. participated in the civil rights movement in the South but found no cause for complaint in their own regions. b. had become so powerful politically that they were able to abandon direct forms of protest and focused on solving their problems through the ballot box. c. continued to participate actively in protest movements aimed against de facto segregation and discrimination in the North. d. played little role in the civil rights movement, which remained an almost exclusively southern phenomenon.