The sixteen-year-old student who led the student strike in Farmville, Virginia, in 1951 was __________
A) Barbara Johns
B) Spottswood Robinson
C) Vernon Johns
D) Ella Baker
Answer: A
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While progressivism has many meanings, it tended in this period to be based on the central assumption that
A. the laissez-faire philosophy should be embraced in American politics. B. Social Darwinism could create social order and stability. C. individual rights should be expanded as widely as possible. D. urbanization was harmful to the United States. E. American society was capable of improvement.
How are the Amistad and Creole slave revolts linked to the final end of slavery in 1865?
A) Both reduced the hopes of blacks for the eventual end of slavery. B) Both inspired northern and southern blacks but not whites to end slavery. C) Both inspired northern whites but not blacks to end slavery. D) Both inspired both northern whites and blacks to end slavery.
In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu argued that the best political system in a modern society is one where
A) the legislature exercises absolute and unlimited power. B) the king exercises absolute and unlimited power. C) power is divided between the three branches of government. D) the nobility is uninvolved. E) all government resources are focused on military power.
Insurgents opposed to powerful colonizing nations generally preached a message that reflected all EXCEPT which of the following?
a. a combination of traditional resources and some new ones b. strong statements of universal love and toleration c. idealized and glorified understandings of the past d. strongly demonized portrayals of the colonizers e. calls for solidarity among "oppressed" peoples of a particular region