As illustrated in William Hogarth's painting The Gaols Committee of the House of Commons, Georgia proprietor James Oglethorpe primarily viewed that colony as __________
A) a buffer against the Spanish in Florida
B) a way to prove that prisoners could be rehabilitated
C) a laboratory for political experimentation
D) an opportunity to enrich himself
B
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The humanist credited with making Renaissance humanism an international movement was
a. Petrarch. b. Lorenzo Valla. c. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. d. Desiderius Erasmus. e. Sir Thomas More.
Father Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice demanded
A. government takeover of all banks and most industries. B. equal treatment for Catholics in employment. C. more public works programs to relieve the unemployed. D. civil rights legislation.
Once at sea, slave ships travelled to the Canary Islands and from there to __________
A) Virginia B) New England C) Spain D) the West Indies
For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Geneva Conference, 1954
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