The Eisenhower administration used "New Deal-style" government spending in modernizing
a. the American medical system.
b. the Civilian Conservation Corps.
c. the national highway system.
d. environmental protection methods.
ANS: c
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a. saw the rise of popular culture. b. experienced frequent fires. c. merchants were numerous, and were important citizens. d. was the capital of the Southern Song.
All of the following are true of political organization under the Incan empire EXCEPT:
a. It was divided into four regions, which were subdivided into 80 provinces, each of which had an Inca subgovernor. b. Local elites retained some power, subordinate to the Incan governors and subgovernors. c. Care was taken not to disturb local practices, such as burial rituals. d. Local elites oversaw recruiting for the mit’a, or the service obligation of the subjects.
In the fifty years before the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, the French economy was
A) growing due to an expansion of foreign trade and industrial production. B) stagnant due to foreign competition in industry and trade. C) declining rapidly due to overuse of arable land. D) ruined by the collapse of the textile industry. E) entirely based upon agricultural production.
What was the subject of Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man?
a. It questioned the new evolutionary theories. b. It proposed the first theory of genetic mutations. c. It argued for the animal origins of human beings, who had evolved by adapting to their environment over time. d. It placed humans in the center of a rational universe. e. It predicted the extinction of man and the rise of a new creation that would dominate nature.