Who was Honoré de Balzac?
A) He founded the style of literature known as Realism.
B) He was a revolutionary in thought and wrote condemning political satires.
C) He was an atheist that set the tone for an entirely new genre of literature.
D) He wrote about such harsh topics as debtors' prisons and English workhouses.
E) He was the author of Genealogy of Morals.
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In the early years of the twentieth century, movies drew their strongest attendance from
A) middle class professionals. B) native born entrepreneurs. C) working class ethnic groups. D) the guardians of Victorian morality.
Traditional liberals like Herbert Spencer believed all the following EXCEPT
a. government is an evil and oppressive institution. b. government aid advocated by the new liberals would make the working class into "grown-up babies." c. the poor are incompetent, lazy, weak, and deserving of their poverty. d. governments should limit their activities to functions such as defense and a postal system. e. once kings needed to be restrained, now parliaments needed restraint.
The Transylvania Company employed Daniel Boone and others to cut
a. the Mohawk Trail into western New York. b. Forbes's Road to Pittsburgh. c. the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap. d. the Great Valley Road through the Cumberland Gap.
All of the following were TRUE about the Constitutional Convention delegates' work on the judiciary EXCEPT
A) the delegates spent almost no time on the judiciary. B) the delegates created a Supreme Court and lower federal courts. C) the delegates considered, but dropped, an idea to have the president and the judges of the Supreme Court together consider the constitutionality of federal and state laws. D) the Supreme Court's role as the arbiter of the constitutionality of state and federal laws was detailed in Article III of the Constitution.