What was a result of the Navigation Acts?
A. English shipping decreased.
B. Dutch power in the Americas was increased.
C. Certain specified goods were taxed at much higher rates.
D. Colonists could pay a tax to trade directly with foreign countries.
Ans: D. Colonists could pay a tax to trade directly with foreign countries.
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What was the result of the 1964 presidential election?
A) Lyndon Johnson won a landslide in the popular vote while the GOP carried only Arizona and five Deep South states. B) The GOP nearly defeated Lyndon Johnson, who had alienated northerners because he was a southerner and southerners because he was too liberal. C) The GOP successfully branded Johnson as an irresponsible liberal whose reelection would lead to depression and war in Vietnam. D) Lyndon Johnson won a sweeping electoral victory but was unable to help the Democratic party make gains in either the Senate or the House of Representatives. E) Third-party candidate George Wallace siphoned enough votes from both major-party candidates to throw the election into the House of Representatives, which, because it was controlled by the Democrats, voted for Lyndon Johnson.
Black Christians gravitated toward certain Biblical texts, favoring all of the following EXCEPT
A. the record of jubilee laws. B. the exodus narrative. C. injunctions to obedience in the Pauline epistles. D. the psalms of the Hebrew scriptures.
Which of the following examples represents an instance where government policies clashed with Hindu religious values?
a) governments balancing secular and religious traditions in the writing of laws in Central Asia to protect the rights of Hindus b) the government of the Soviet Union eliminating the official church-state connection that had been forged by Peter the Great c) destruction of Hindu temples and monasteries in Xizang Province of Tibet d) conflict between communist values and Hindu beliefs in China e) British colonial administrators challenging traditional religious concepts in India
The AIDS Memorial Quilt and ACT-UP "funeral" demonstrations were similar in what way?
A) Both used positive images to strive toward acceptance of gay lifestyles. B) Both were seen as subversive acts of civil disobedience. C) Both employed symbolism related to dead bodies. D) Both focused on demands for better care for AIDS patients.