What was the immediate or initial impact of Gorbachev's policy of glasnost?
a. The Soviet Union totally collapsed.
b. Many dark truths about life in the USSR were brought to light for the first time.
c. The abortion rate became the highest in the world.
d. The Soviet economy boomed.
Answer: b. Many dark truths about life in the USSR were brought to light for the first time.
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A) On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. B) Novum Organum. C) Principia. D) On the Motion of the Heart and Blood. E) The Great Instauration.
Of the following groups that migrated to the United States in the late nineteenth century were motivated most by the fear of violence?
a. Chinese b. Japanese c. Italians d. Russian Jews
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A) It assisted southern whites in recapturing escaped slaves, hastening the end of slavery. B) It funded many African Americans' return to Africa and reduced the number of slaves in the U.S. C) It helped slaves escape and undermined slavery in the South. D) It lobbied Congress to end slavery through slave rebellions.
The expansion of slavery in the first half of the nineteenth century can largely be attributed to __________.
a. the spread of cotton cultivation b. falling prices for slaves c. a tobacco boom d. the importation of slaves from Africa