The poll tax, literacy test, and the actions of the Ku Klux Klan were all attempts to kinky the effectiveness of
A. The 14th and 15th amendments
B. The supreme courts decision in brown v. Board of education
C. Civil rights legislation passed in all states after the civil war
D. Immigration laws such as the gentleman's agreement and the Chinese Exclusion act
Answer: A. The 14th and 15th amendments
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This institution separated Russia from the rest of Europe and was ended in February 1861:
A. Bourgeoisie B. Serfdom C. Conscription D. Legalism E. Tributism
Enlightenment philosophes generally approved of Thomas Hobbes's
a. advocacy of absolutist monarchy. b. contract theory of government. c. refusal to bring God into his political theories. d. Deism. e. outlook on education.
White southerners justified the institution of slavery with each of the following religious arguments except
a. Jesus never criticized slavery. b. slaves were the descendants of Ham and deserved enslavement. c. slavery had given African Americans Christianity. d. the Epistles of Paul urged slaves to obey their masters. e. slavery was a gift to God.
Coloni were __________.
A. midlevel army officers B. humanist teachers C. divinators D. tenant farmers