Poitiers
What will be an ideal response?
Battle in 1356 that marked the second defeat of the French army by the English, during which the French king was captured and held in England for ransom
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The late nineteenth century has been called the Gilded Age because
a. the government was firmly committed to the gold standard. b. the era was characterized by an obsession with riches. c. the average American's standard of living rapidly improved. d. people from the countryside were lured to the rapidly growing cities.
Most supporters of the Wilmot Proviso advocated
A. the freeing of the 3 million African American slaves. B. abolishing slavery. C. abandoning the "free soil" principle in western lands. D. federal regulation of slavery in territories that had not yet become states.
What made the 1970 killings of four students who were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia at Kent State University so ironic?
A) Americans feared that a war undertaken to protect American democracy was instead of destroying it. B) The four victims had just been drafted to go serve in Vietnam and Cambodia. C) Nixon had recently called the student protestors such as those at Kent State "bums blowing up campuses" while the public perceived them as martyrs. D) The Kent State shootings unmasked the "town and gown" divide that resulted in counterprotests to support the war.
The Reign of Terror is best defined as
A) a period during the French revolution when the Jacobins were in power and ruled by fear. B) the time when the nobility of France feared for its life and fled by the tens of thousands from France. C) a period of politically motivated mass executions in republican France. D) the period after lynching was no longer a method of execution. E) All of these