Describe the pro-slavery argument. What kinds of assertions were made to justify the "peculiar institution"?
What will be an ideal response?
Consider: positive good argument (defiant); favorably compared to "wage slavery" of the North; beneficent institution, promoted intellectual development of whites and civilizing of blacks; supported a hierarchial, organic (stable) society; justified by racial inferiority (polygenesis).
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What was the significance of Picasso's famous work Guernica?
A) The work showed the horror of the atrocities committed by both sides during the Spanish Civil War. B) The work showed the righteousness of the republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. C) Spaniards on both sides of the civil war demanded peace. D) The work blamed all of the violence in Spain on the Soviets. E) The work glorified Franco and helped him seize power.
Hezbollah refers to a/an
A) secular nationalist movement in the Palestinian territories, rival to Fatah. B) secular nationalist movement in the Palestinian territories, rival to Hamas. C) religious nationalist movement in the Palestinian territories, rival to Fatah. D) intellectual community of Muslims set on demonstrating the moderate activity of Muslim faith E) movement armed and financed by Syria and Iran that rules the Shia community in Lebanon.
The development of a national railway system __________
A) provided needed jobs for an overabundant labor supply B) had little effect on economic changes in the late nineteenth century C) led to an integrated national economic system D) had little help from the political system E) was not completed until the early twentieth century
Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with Big Business.
a. true b. false