What motivated the Santa Fe Ring to wrest about 80 percent of the original Spanish grants from Hispanic land holders in New Mexico?
A) organizing and operating the Santa Fe Railroad
B) manipulating the territorial elections of New Mexico and securing control of the legislature
C) making profits
D) securing government grants and loans for the development of northern New Mexico
C
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A. marked a period of intellectual flowering B. saw a decrease in food supplies and population C. was when the relationship between the Latin church and monarchical secular governments was strongest D. was a period of economic stagnation
Roman government consisted of these three branches of government:
A. queen, king, and Senate. B. king, parliament, and Senate. C. Senate, king, and curiate assembly. D. army, king, and Senate. E. curiate assembly, parliament, and king.
The Canterbury Tales presents the abstract principles of __________ morality through the stories of 30 pilgrims who represent different segments of society
A) Greek B) Roman C) Buddhist D) Christian
The eighteenth-century musical composition that has been called one of those rare works that appeal immediately to everyone, and yet is indisputably a masterpiece of the highest order is
A) Bach's St. Matthew's Passion. B) Haydn's The Seasons. C) Handel's Messiah. D) Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. E) Wagner's The Ring cycle.