The center of scientific inquiry during the Hellenistic era was __________
A) Athens
B) Alexandria
C) Babylon
D) Jerusalem
B
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Two cases, Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co v. Illinois and Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, demonstrated that the Supreme Court in 1886 was
A) primarily conservative and supported big business. B) primarily conservative but opposed big business. C) primarily progressive and supported labor unions. D) primarily progressive but opposed labor unions. E) primarily populist and supported farmers.
What was Puritan leader and Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop's attitude toward liberty?
a. He saw two kinds of liberty: natural liberty, the ability to do evil, and moral liberty, the ability to do good. b. He saw two kinds of liberty: negative liberty, the restricting of freedoms for the sake of others, and positive liberty, the assuring of rights through a constitution. c. He believed that individual rights took precedence over the rights of the community. d. He believed in a dictatorship, with only himself in charge of it. e. He believed "liberty" had a religious but not a political meaning.
The case of James Armistead was unusual because __________
A) he became a citizen of England after the war B) he later fought in the War of 1812 C) he was recognized for his military service by the United States government D) he married into a white planter family
The Supreme Court ruling in Cumming v. Richmond County [Georgia] Board of Education supported the __________
A) the loss of a black high school B) imposition of literacy test for voting C) position of civil rights activists D) integration of a public university