Who was highest ranked in social order in eighteenth-century Britain?
a. Peerage
b. Gentry
c. Merchantry
d. Middling sorts
e. Clergy
a
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The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren outraged religious conservatives in 1962 when it
a. declared that tax breaks to religious charities were unconstitutional. b. ruled that required prayer and Bible reading in public schools violated the First Amendment. c. prohibited the display of religious symbols in government buildings. d. ruled that parochial students could not ride on public school buses. e. ruled that the government practice of congressional chaplains was unconstitutional.
Frederick Douglass argued that:
a. free blacks would be better off if they moved to Liberia, where a colony of former American slaves had been founded. b. slaves were truer to the principles of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans. c. free African-Americans should “let down their buckets where they were” and accept inequality, at least for a period of time. d. the United States should adopt a gradual emancipation plan that would eliminate slavery within forty years. e. blacks should not serve in the U.S. army during the Civil War because of the racial discrimination they faced.
What was the Russo-Japanese War?
A) After the Open Door trade policy was passed, Japan decided to join forces with Russia to seize and then divide Manchuria. B) After the Open Door trade policy, Japan decided to seize territory for herself in 1904 and went after Manchuria by attacking the Russian naval fleet and base in China. Japan was able to seize the territory for herself. C) The Japanese were attacked by Russia in their Chinese port of Port Arthur. Russia seized all of Manchuria and damaged the economy of Japan. D) The Russians decided to fight against the Japanese for control of Manchuria. Their navy was not strong enough to combat the Japanese and Russia was defeated. E) The Russians were blindsided by the Japanese when they seized control of Korea and subsequently lost the territory to Japan.
________ became a founder of Rhode Island when his radically critical views of established religious practice got him banished from Massachusetts Bay.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).