John Scopes was
a) an intelligent, modest, and popular young man.
b) an ardent evolutionist who approached the ACLU for protection.
c) opposed to evolution and only decided to challenge the law because some friends convinced him he would become famous.
d) paid to challenge the law by Dayton officials in an effort to "put Dayton on the map."
e) was a professional protester who had been involved in cases involving prohibition, anti-immigration laws, and the Ku Klux Klan.
a
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A) federal regulation of wages and hours B) increased union membership C) the end of the Depression D) an increase in prices and a limiting of production
Which of these arguably challenged the Soviet Union in the same way that Vietnam had challenged the United States?
A) China B) Poland C) Afghanistan D) Hungary
Prior to 1830, southerners generally defended slavery as a(n)
A) historical inevitability. B) positive good. C) necessary evil. D) biblical injunction.
In 1823, British foreign minister George Canning asked the United States
a. to hand over Oregon. b. to resume its cotton exports to England. c. to return Florida to Spain. d. to join Britain in warning European monarchs from trying to take over the new Latin American republics. e. to void the Jay Treaty.