Petrarch, Dante, and Boccaccio were
a. political leaders of Florence.
b. military strongmen, or podesta, who maintained order.
c. humanist literary figures.
d. Greek scholars who emigrated to Italy following the fall of Constantinople.
c
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Katherine Bement Davis's 1929 study revealed that most middle-class women __________
A) described sexual relations in negative terms B) were likely to have premarital sex C) disapproved of homosexuality D) used contraceptives and described sex in positive terms
All of the following characterized American attitudes toward slavery between 1789 and 1800 EXCEPT
a. Slave owners' property rights were considered more important than freedom for African American slaves. b. Slave owners were frightened by the success of the slave revolt in Santo Domingo. c. Slave owners felt under attack by abolitionists. d. African Americans had their hopes raised by the promise of the American Revolution, but were badly disappointed by the Constitution. e. The question of what to do if slaves were freed seemed insurmountable
John C. Calhoun developed his doctrine of nullification by drawing ideas from the
A. United States Constitution. B. Missouri Compromise. C. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. D. United States Constitution and the Missouri Compromise. E. ideas of Madison and Jefferson, along with the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Information about the Holocaust caused all of the following reactions except
A) disbelief, in part due to the false stories of German atrocities in the First World War. B) bombing of the rail line into Auschwitz and other death camps. C) skepticism, because it was known that in some Jewish camps, the inmates were not killed. D) appeals for concerted action that never came. E) Roosevelt refused pleas from Jewish leaders, wishing to concentrate on victory instead.