Describe the impact of social reform movements on American law and criminal justice in the early nineteenth century
What will be an ideal response?
Consider: new view of crime as a social, not an individual problem; crime resulted from social environment, not personal sin; new prisons stressed rehabilitation, hard labor, solitary confinement; outlawing of capital punishment and imprisonment for debt in some states; insanity plea accepted.
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On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Union successfully confronted the Confederate attack, which
A) turned out to be one of their weakest offensives due to the depletion of their forces. B) was an all-out frontal assault rather than a flanking maneuver. C) involved their coming from behind Union forces on Cemetery Ridge. D) resulted in the final defeat of the Confederacy. E) pushed the Union troops back to their previous position.
What types of new empires arose among the native peoples of the Americas during the eighteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
Clinton's efforts at peace between Israel and the Palestinians were hampered because of __________
A) opposition at home B) lack of support from other powers C) violent extremists on both sides D) Congressional intervention
When the Sasanians conquered a region, they
a. divided the territory into two types of land. b. forced the local population to convert to Zoroastrianism. c. put all local men of military age to death. d. called for a referendum on the political fate of the territory. e. burned all of its cities to the ground.