Americans insisted that they be taxed by their own assemblies because they held to John Locke's dictum,
A. that government governs best which governs least.
B. that all men are created equal.
C. that property guarantees liberty.
D. no taxation without representation.
C. that property guarantees liberty.
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Which of the following statements is correct about the nature of the Zhou merchant and slave classes?
A. Merchants were independent operators and slaves were a majority of the population. B. The merchants traded only in domestic goods and the slaves worked only on farmland. C. The merchants were the property of the local lord and the slaves were probably individuals who had been seized in warfare. D. The merchants became the de facto rulers who humanely freed their slaves. E. Under the Zhou, the merchant classes were enslaved by the emperors, making the merchant class the same thing as the slave class.
The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution:
A) gave women the right to vote. B) established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. C) established that senators be elected directly by the citizens. D) prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on race or color. E) prohibited the revocation of voting rights due to non-payment of a poll tax.
Which of these groups provided much of the financial support for the Anti-Saloon League?
A. recent immigrants B. local businessmen C. women's organizations D. the Democratic Party
Greek pre-Socratic philosophy included all of the following except
A) an attempt to discover the fundamental element out of which the world is made. B) a self-avowed love of wisdom. C) the idea that reality was not the world of the senses. D) regular, controlled experimentation. E) the movement away from anthropomorphic explanations.