The Scientific Revolution resulted in all the following EXCEPT
a. complete secularization.
b. confidence in the progress of human knowledge.
c. optimism about the ability of societies to solve their problems.
d. the separation of theology into a field of its own.
e. a growing disdain for tradition, popular beliefs.
a
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Which of the following is true of women in the West?
A. Through the home mission movement, many women helped sustain family and community life. B. Virtually all of the women who moved to the West in the late nineteenth century were prostitutes. C. They were usually single and moved to the West to establish their own economic independence. D. Like most males, women who moved to the West were individual prospectors and received financial backing from Eastern banks.
How did New England women achieve some measure of economic independence?
a. They controlled any property they owned before marriage. b. They made and sold clothing for neighboring families. c. They raised poultry and sold surplus birds. d. They negotiated in the marriage market.
The negotiation of the Treaty of Paris of 1783:
a) was a masterful bit of diplomacy by Thomas Jefferson. b) began only after the Battle of Yorktown. c) gave the new American nation control of Canada. d) led to the reestablishment of the 1763 Proclamation Line dividing Indians and white settlers.
What did Samuel Gompers's appointment to the National War Labor Board by President Wilson signify?
A. the federal government's acceptance of socialism B. an alliance between business and labor during the war C. recognition of women's working rights by both business and the government D. labor's acceptance of a greater federal presence in their workers' lives