What was Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis," and what are the criticisms of it?
What will be an ideal response?
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Edward Gibbon is most famous for his analysis of Rome's ________
A) religions B) "decline and fall" C) social structure D) early republic
Why did most northern whites oppose the expansion of slavery into the territories?
A) They felt that it would hurt them economically. B) They thought that all blacks should be socially superior to whites. C) They all objected to slavery as a moral evil. D) They felt that it was important for America to spread ideals of equality for all.
All of the following occurred in England's American colonies in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution in 1689 EXCEPT
A) the new monarchs, William and Mary, allowed the New England colonies to return to their former separate political existences. B) the new royal charters that reestablished the governments of Massachusetts and Connecticut granted religious liberty and freedom to all Protestants and Catholics. C) German immigrant Jacob Leisler, supported by merchants, dockworkers, and traders, seized power in New York for two years before being removed forcibly by the new royal governor. D) in Maryland, a popular uprising occurred that ultimately resulted in Catholics being excluded from public office and the colony becoming a royal colony.
Aztec society
A. focused its religious interest on "the holy one," Huitzilopochtli, the only god in the monotheistic Aztec system of religious belief. B. did not possess a writing system as such, although it developed hieroglyphs. C. dedicated the sacred precinct in central Tenochtitlán to the rain god, Shiva, and to Huitzilopochtli. D. did not sharply delineate gender roles. E. was egalitarian in theory but hierarchical in practice.