What was James Oglethorpe's purpose in founding the colony of Georgia in 1733?
A) to provide a religious haven for Catholics
B) to create a place in North America where England's insolvent debtors and poor could find new lives and avoid debtors' prison
C) to establish a closer political, economic, and cultural relationship with Spanish Florida
D) to provide a refuge for free Africans in the South
Answer: B
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A) acceptance of slavery B) the rejection of Christianity C) strong family ties D) creole languages
The rise of the social sciences in the later nineteenth-century Europe demonstrated
A) a return to Enlightenment rationality and a rejection of Romantic emotionalism. B) an increasing failure of European intellectuals to make sense of the world around them. C) a belief that science and the humanities had nothing to contribute to each other. D) a confidence that spiritual man was as significant as scientific man. E) that women were, by their nature, doomed to be second-class citizens.
Louis XIV implemented all the following policies in France EXCEPT
a. mercantilism. b. making himself head of the Catholic Church in France. c. the repression of Protestantism. d. building up the military. e. building a lavish palace at Versailles.
Workers developed a sense of solidarity for all of the following reasons except that they
A) often shared the same religious attitudes. B) lived in the same areas and in similar conditions. C) rejected the label working class, which they felt was demeaning. D) intermarried and shared leisure activities. E) often pooled their resources to provide mutual aid.