The Scopes "Monkey Trial": significance:
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: 1925; Dayton, Tennesee: biology teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution. Trial = national news story w/ circus atmosphere. William Jennings Bryant = expert witness. Scopes defended by Clarence Darrow. Fundamentalists won but were painted in such a bad light that they lost ground in society.
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Which political authority controlled most of southern Italy in the fourteenth century?
a. The Kingdom of Naples b. The papacy c. The Republic of Venice d. The Republic of Florence e. The Duchy of Milan
Bergson may be best associated with
a. studying the id. b. positivism and the ability of science to provide explanations. c. being the first artist of the surrealist movement. d. the theory that intuition can grasp ultimate reality. e. the study of popular culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Among other views, The Federalist, written during the ratification debate, argued that it was
a. impossible to safeguard the rights of states from the power of a strong central government. b. possible to extend a republican form of government over a large territory. c. inevitable that slavery would be abolished in the new republic. d. illegal to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new constitution. e. best to establish a direct democracy.
Why have serious economic fluctuations in recent years had global impact?
A. use of automated trading protocols B. the acceleration of business cycles because of automation C. use of the federal reserve system versus the gold standard D. national economies being tightly linked together