The Edict of Nantes (1598)
A) granted freedom of worship to Huguenots.
B) forced conversion of Protestants to Catholicism in France.
C) limited female participation in government.
D) separated the authority of the French king from the papal authority of the Roman
Catholic Church.
E) was authored by Louis XIV.
A
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The number of Soviet citizens who lost their lives in World War II is estimated at
a. two million. b. five million. c. ten million. d. twenty million. e. fifty million.
One of the first groups to openly condemn slavery in British America were the:
A) Quakers. B) Puritans. C) Anglicans. D) Methodists.
When someone in the household of black physician Ossian H. Sweet fired a fatal shot into the white mob assaulting the Sweet’s new house in a white neighborhood, the Sweets were
a. dragged immediately from their homes and murdered irrespective of their gender. b. arrested and acquitted of all charges thanks to the legal support of the NAACP and famous white attorneys. c. found guilty by an all-white jury, which rejected their pleas of self-defense, sentenced Ossian Sweet and his brother to execution, and sentenced Ossian’s wife to life imprisonment. d. rescued from prison by a black mob and spirited away to Europe to escape prosecution.
Some British agents of the East India Company took Indian wives, dressed as Indian princes, and wielded power as local magnates, or __________ (from an Urdu word meaning “viceroy”).
a. Sahibs. b. Moguls. c. Poobahs. d. Nabobs.