One basic assumption shared by most Enlightenment philosophers was that humans, by nature, were weak and easily corruptible
A) True
B) False
Ans: B) False
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Heavier reliance on the infantry in the Hundred Years' War was bad for ________
A. urban nobles B. the peasantry C. the French D. the status of the nobility
Which of the following arguments was most likely to have been used by southerners in the 1830s and 1840s to defend the institution of slavery? a. It is true that slavery is an evil within human society, but for economic reasons it is presently a necessaryevil
b. Society is ordered in a particular way by the dictates of nature, and nature has ordained that blacks are bornto be slaves. c. All whites are born to be free and equal, but all nonwhites are frowned on by God and were born to beslaves. d. Human beings are equal in the sight of God only if they have accepted the tenets of Christianity; therefore,non-Christians may be enslaved.
As married women in the United States have increasingly embraced paid work, their spouses have:
a. formed men’s movements to resist women’s changing roles. b. increased their involvement in masculine leisure time activities. c. increasingly rearranged their priorities to give more time to home and family. d. grown increasingly resentful of women’s changing roles.
In 1924, __________ declared, "The business of America is business."
A) Andrew Mellon B) Henry Ford C) Herbert Hoover D) Calvin Coolidge