What thinkers rejected the objectivity and rationality of the Enlightenment by speaking up for the validity of emotion and sentiment?
A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Samuel Richardson
B) Thomas Paine and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
C) Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft
D) Madame de Pompadour and Abigail Adams
E) Olympe de Gouges and Abigail Adams
Answer: A
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What evidence supported the charge that the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision was a political maneuver?
a. The Court’s verdict was found not binding by congressional leaders. b. President-elect Buchanan encouraged the Court to rule against Dred Scott. c. Five of the six judges who voted in the majority were proslavery southerners. d. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was nominated by Andrew Jackson.
When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared free only those slaves in
a. the Border States. b. conquered areas already under control of the Union army. c. the western territories not yet admitted to statehood. d. areas under control of the Confederate government. e. areas controlled by the Union army.
As the fighting in the final phase of the American Revolution (1778-1781) carried into communities previously isolated from the war,
A. support for independence greatly increased. B. large segments of the American population became war refugees. C. local criticism of Patriots increased. D. American armies engaged in more large, open-field battles. E. more Loyalists began actively helping the British.
The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 proved to Federalists that democracy in the hands of the ordinary citizenry was dangerous.
a. true b. false