The Puritans had a phrase that aptly described their relationship to material pleasures:
a) "Eat, drink, and be merry."
b) "Wine is from God, but drunkenness is from the devil."
c) "Avoid at all costs, any earthly pleasures."
d) "Read your Bible daily."
e) "Live today for tomorrow you may die."
b
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In early 1895, when the Treasury's gold reserves reached a desperately low point,
A) President Cleveland devalued the dollar. B) President Cleveland ordered twenty million dollars worth of silver dollars coined even though this caused significant inflation. C) President Cleveland took the country off the gold standard. D) a banking syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan underwrote a new bond issue and saved the government from bankruptcy.
Guion S. Bluford, Jr. and Mae E. Jamison were, respectively, the first black man and first black woman to
a. win tennis championships at Wimbledon. b. serve as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. c. travel into outer space. d. serve as U.S. attorneys general.
During World War II, the National Defense Research Committee
A. received more private funding than government money. B. spent more than $100 million on research. C. concentrated its work on developing an atomic bomb. D. funded less research than its predecessor had during World War I. E. had, by 1941, pushed the U.S. into a position of technological superiority over Germany.
How did Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger view the world and America's place in it? Explain their strategies toward the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Latin America.
What will be an ideal response?