For French philosopher Auguste Comte, world history was arranged into three successive stages, theological, metaphysical and scientific, the last stage representing the advances and progress ushered in by the sciences, which he saw as a positive stage. Hence Comte’s philosophy’s was labeled _________.
a. “Optimism”
b. “Positivism”
c. “Objectivism”
d. “Progressivism”
b. “Positivism”
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During the Jacksonian era, free blacks could not vote at all in the South and could hardly vote anywhere in the North
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The greatest challenge facing the first Washington administration was __________
A) foreign affairs B) waging war with Native Americans C) setting the government's finances in order D) territorial expansion E) regulating interstate trade
The safety valve theory that the West dampened class conflict, while exaggerated, did have some validity because
a. free western land did attract many immigrants to the West who might have crowded urban job markets. b. western farmers tended to be politically more conservative than those in the East. c. wealthy western farmers hired many unemployed laborers from eastern cities. d. eastern city dwellers headed west to get free homesteads during depressions. e. western cities had less class conflict than those in the East.
The Carlsbad Decrees relaxed intellectual and political restrictions in Germany in 1819
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false