One may say of the Second Estate that
a. ownership of church lands offered its members considerable profit.
b. the bourgeoisie was its major component.
c. most were intolerant of the ideas of the philosophes.
d. it consisted of about two million persons.
e. it performed the most useful services for the state.
c
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A) William Lloyd Garrison B) Frederick Douglass C) Lewis Tappan D) Martin Delany
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a. Buddhism. b. Confucianism. c. Sufism. d. Islam.
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A. Putting down rebellious serfs. B. Beating themselves in an effort to avoid harsher abuse by Christians. C. Following the edicts set down by Joan of Arc. D. Physically scourging themselves during the Black Death. E. Forming a slave rebellion in fifteenth-century Italy.