The major reason Nicholas I instituted unprecedented secret police surveillance in Russia during his reign was
A) the Decembrist revolt.
B) renewed Ottoman attacks.
C) the works of Karl Marx.
D) fear of his brother Constantin launching a coup.
E) nobles had killed his son.
A
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After 1870, American public education
A) finally stabilized after 40 years of enormous change. B) underwent a revolution in teaching methods which stressed strict discipline and rote learning. C) was most forward-looking in the South. D) changed steadily in response to the many social and economic changes of the era.
A large majority of scientists today attribute what they now view as global warming to the emission of ____________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
European society in the eighteenth century witnessed
A) earlier ages of marriage for both brides and grooms. B) the continued dominance of the nuclear family. C) the declining importance of the woman in the "family economy." D) rapidly declining rates of illegitimate births and a consequent decline in infanticide. E) the establishment of households containing all members of newly married couples' extended families.
Rockefeller's Standard Oil might not have become such a big, important industry without the invention of the
a. Bessemer process. b. automobile. c. electric lightbulb. d. kerosene lamps. e. railroads.