Which of the following most accurately describes the Columbian Exchange?
A. the trade route to Asia that was found by European maritime explorers
B. the maritime system of tracking the Atlantic's winds and currents
C. the economic system between Spain and its American colonies
D. the transfer of living organisms across the Atlantic in both directions
Answer: D
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a. Deng Xiaoping. b. Marx and Lenin. c. Mao Zedong. d. Confucius. e. Sun Yat-sen.
Which of the following is NOT true of the overcrowding problems in U.S. cities?
A. Children were left to wander the streets or spend the day at the cinema while parents worked in factories. B. Prefabricated "houses like Fords" were produced on assembly lines to help with housing shortages. C. Some migrants had to live in shantytowns near factories. D. The Lanham Act placed major cities under martial law to control rioting.
During the Leguía dictatorship, the women's movement split along class lines with
A) Magda Portal and other radicals demanding the vote for literate women. B) aristocratic women supporting enfranchisement of literate women. C) aristocratic women and women of color joining forces against working class women. D) middle-class women insisting on political rights and broader social reforms.
A leading proponent of the Enlightenment, Voltaire
A) despised the Catholic Church. B) portrayed Great Britain as a more rational society than France. C) traveled extensively, sometime voluntarily, sometimes not. D) was cautious about the ability of humans to discern truth. E) All of the above.