What revenue backed the value of the assignats?
A. new taxes on the nobility
B. taxes on the Third Estate
C. wealth captured after the monarchy was executed
D. the sale of church property
Answer: D
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A) willingly cooperated with Congress's request. B) submitted some of the requested documents. C) asked the Supreme Court for a ruling. D) refused to cooperate, invoking executive privilege.
Evidence leads historians to believe that the prime responsibility of a respectable Athenian woman was to __________.
A. hold public office B. take part in political assemblies C. produce male heirs for her husband's household D. take an active part in public life
What incident or development resulted in the entry of the United States into World War I?
a. The sinking of the liner Lusitania had resulted in substantial loss of American lives. b. With the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Wilson feared that the remaining Allies would not be able to continue the war. c. Anti-German sentiment in the United States, fomented by the British, forced Wilson to declare war on Germany and her allies. d. Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917. e. During the mutiny of its army, France asked for American aid; the United States, still grateful for French help in the War of Independence, quickly responded.
The peasant revolts in England were caused by ______________.
A. lack of representation in guilds B. peasants in the countryside resisting the plundering of soldiers during the Hundred Years' War C. peasants and reeves who protested excessive taxation by the government D. peasants, merchants, and workers protesting against the rights of the nobility E. soldiers protesting conscription into the army