Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose abuses in the meat-packing industry but became a Socialist when the book was misinterpreted as a Socialist tract
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
ANS: F
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What were the primary concerns of the sans-culottes?
A. food and price controls B. rights to political representation C. security and free trade D. the abolition of serfdom
The development of printing in the fifteenth century
A) pertained predominantly to secular works, as theological works were still done by hand. B) saw the invention of movable type by Nicholas Fabian. C) ensured that literacy and new knowledge would spread rapidly in European society. D) made communication and collaborative work between scholars more difficult due to competition. E) had little impact until the eighteenth century.
Slave communities provided all of the following EXCEPT:
A) the possibility of building a family. B) access to African values and attitudes. C) their own form of religion. D) the opportunity to choose where families would live.
As a result of his third voyage in 1498, Christopher Columbus concluded that
A. Asia could not be reached by a ship traveling west from Europe. B. he had encountered a continent separate from Asia. C. all of the lands he had seen were in Asia. D. the lands he had discovered offered great mineral wealth. E. he had never come even remotely close to Asia.