The text points to which of the following as a "Copernican Revolution" in philosophy?
a. Hegel's idea of the Absolute Spirit
b. The romantics' primacy of emotion over reason
c. Byron's exaltation of the senses
d. Kant's idea that the knower is the active agent in knowledge, not the object being known
e. Coleridge's rejection of the watchmaker God of the philosophes
d
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a. compete for large capital investment b. promise immense wealth to investors c. encourage "limited liability" for the investors d. finance the expense of gaining a royal charter e. get around religious restrictions on investment profits
The New York City draft riots led to the deaths of more than a hundred people, many of them __________
A) poor Irish immigrants B) Union recruiting officers C) African Americans D) wealthy draft-dodgers
What led to the increase in immigration in the 1970s?
A. rises in immigration quotas beginning in the 1960s B. new American education policies aiding immigrant children C. American treaties with Middle Eastern nations D. improved sentiments for immigrant employees
Peter the Great adopted all of these policies EXCEPT
a. insisting that the majority of governmental expenditures were for military purposes. b. implementing state domination of the Russian Orthodox church. c. isolating Russia from the ways and customs of western Europe. d. making an effort to modernize Russia. e. strengthening of the power of the tsar.