South Carolina became the first state to secede, doing so in direct response to __________
a) the election of Abraham Lincoln
b) the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
c) the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment
d) the Dred Scott decision
Answer: a
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A) the eight-hour work day B) child labor C) the $3 per hour minimum wage D) workplace safety regulations
Wealthy landowners in medieval Russia were known as _______
A. serfs B. streltsy C. boyars D. cossacks
In the conduct of the Hundred Years' War, a sure sign of feudalism's decline was the
A) inability of feuding kings to raise armies of knights. B) reliance of kings on artillery as the main component of royal armies. C) decisive role of peasant foot soldiers rather than mounted knights. D) clear intention of kings to destroy the estates of their own vassals. E) use of heavier armor and larger horses.
The history of Protestantism in France includes all the following EXCEPT
a. the succession of one of their leaders to the throne. b. full religious tolerance in the Edict of Nantes in 1598. c. a brutal war with the Catholics beginning in 1562. d. the emigration of a quarter million French Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. e. the slaughter of thousands of Huguenots in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.