Which of the following is an accurate description of the Sons of Liberty, created in 1765?
A. The organization was founded by colonists who opposed the colonial resistance movement.
B. This intercolonial association was created by the elite in an attempt to channel crowd action into acceptable forms of resistance.
C. This intercolonial association was founded by a group of newspaper editors who composed a series of essays on the subject of liberty.
D. The organization was strongest in the South and was composed of radicals who demanded separation from Great Britain.
Answer: B
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Of all the political innovations of the era of the American Revolution, which can be considered the most radical?
A) the theory that power within a government had to be restrained through a series of checks and balances. B) the realization that both houses of a bicameral legislature represented all the people, not just narrow classes. C) the idea that political institutions should be judged by the standard of whether they served the public good rather than the interests of the powerful few. D) the assertion that government was based on the consent of the governed and that revolution, therefore, was sometimes justifiable. E) the introduction of government with powers divided among three branches.
Why did Pope Paul III allow the Jesuits to organize?
A) To seek out and destroy texts listed on the Index of forbidden books. B) To educate people so they could bring souls into or back into the Catholic Church through education. C) To help bring sinners to justice during the Inquisition. D) To educate the world as to the major differences between Catholics and Protestants. E) To assist Ignatius of Loyola in obtaining papal permission to found their new religious order.
Most Renaissance humanists intended to
a. challenge many if not most fundamental Christian beliefs. b. create a purer form of Christianity based on Scripture and church fathers. c. undermine the validity of the Bible. d. make Christianity irrelevant. e. revitalize spirituality with its otherworldly focus.
In the late 1980s, Yasir Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a. declared Lebanon to be the Palestinian homeland and gained control of the Lebanese government. b. publicly rejected terrorism and accepted the right of Israel to live in peace and security. c. accepted establishment of political autonomy for Palestinians in a territorial enclave within the state ofJordan
d. agreed to the establishment of a United Nations arbitration commission to settle the PLO's long-standingconflict with Israel.