Try to sort out the tangled Italian political situation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. What factors led to increased tensions in the cities, and what was the result? What great families came to power in some of the cities, and how did foreign powers come to exercise such influence in Italy?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Students should comment on the factional strife caused by the bid for power by the popolo, the turning to strong rulers for leadership, the French invasion, and other foreign intervention mentioned in the chapter.
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Briefly summaries both social dominance and system justification theories. Explain how each explains the perpetuation of unequal group hierarchies. Explain what a legitimizing ideology is and provide an example that researchers have examined.
What will be an ideal response?
Ilya Repin
What will be an ideal response?
How did most Americans react to the campus demonstrations of 1970?
A) They criticized campus protesters for undercutting the nation's foreign policy. B) They blamed the Nixon administration for widening the war, and they applauded the goals of the campus demonstrators. C) They retreated from traditional American policies and sought new answers in mystic cults, communes, or the ecology movement. D) They became increasingly radicalized and in the November election voted for radical or left-wing Democratic candidates. E) They launched counter protests against the students.
The section of the United States most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was
a. New England. b. the Great Lakes states. c. the Southwest. d. the South. e. the Middle Atlantic states.