Benedict of Nursia
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Founder of the Benedictine Order of monks who devised a mode of monastic living that proved successful and was widely adopted
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What was the effect of the first strikes waged by the factory girls in the 1830s and 1840s protesting the working conditions they labored under in New England textile mill factories?
A) The strikes resulted in major concessions in pay and improved working conditions for these young women. B) The strikes failed miserably as the young women workers were unsuccessful in improving their pay or their working conditions, and women remained working and living in these factory towns. C) The strikes mostly failed to achieve their goals, and young women returned to their farming hometowns in New England where economic conditions and working opportunities had improved. D) The strikes resulted in state government intervention to guarantee improved, safe working conditions and state government pressure to improve the factory girls' wages.
All of the following were features of the First Great Awakening EXCEPT
A) Solomon Steward and Jonathan Edwards (two ministers) who were leaders in this religious revival movement during the 1720s and 1730s. B) the sermons and revivals of the First Great Awakening spawned many deeply emotional religious conversion experiences among listeners. C) sermons did not rely on long rational arguments for the importance of changing one's life, rather they depended predominately on the preacher's personal charisma. D) this religious revival movement received greater momentum and popular acceptance because of the preaching tours of English evangelical minister George Whitefield.
The Texas governor of the late 1870s who was known for his extreme fiscal conservatism and his big cuts in state spending and state taxes was __________
A. James S. Hogg B. Colonel Edward M. House C. Oran M. Roberts D. James Fannin
Who was the governor of Chad that declared that the French colony's loyalty was to the Free French versus the Vichy French?
A. Maréchal Tassigny B. Félix Éboué C. General de Gaulle D. Marshall Pétain