In 1850, what percentage of all slaves was engaged in cotton growing?
A) 25 percent
B) 35 percent
C) 40 percent
D) 55 percent
Answer: D
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In arguing that current patterns of immigration hurt the American economy, what did Harvard economist George Borjas emphasize?
A) the upward mobility of immigrants B) the higher birth rates among most immigrant groups C) the denial of welfare benefits to immigrants D) the low skills of most immigrants E) the failure of most immigrant groups to assimilate
The Inquisition found Galileo guilty of teaching condemned ideas and sentenced him
A) to be burned at the stake. B) to serve as a galley slave on a Mediterranean shipping vessel. C) to five years of hard labor in prison. D) to write a tract in support of the Ptolemaic conception of the universe. E) to house arrest.
What saved the Revolution as a whole when the "revolution of the lawyers" appeared doomed by the threat of royal armed forces in the summer of 1789?
a. The betrayal of the monarchy by high clergymen b. The defection of key nobles of the sword to the rebels c. The intervention of armed commoners, especially in urban uprisings d. The outside influence of mercenary troops paid by the rebels e. The intervention of Britain, whose constitutional monarch seemed threatened by upheaval in France
Baroque refers to
A) a gaudy show of gold leafing and exuberant and ostentatious displays of wealth. B) the inherently grotesque artistic style that developed during the seventeenth century, when absolute power reigned and culture needed to demonstrate that. C) a demonstration of power in a cultural setting. D) a style of art and architecture that emphasized the spectacular, magnificent, and dramatic, often with the purpose of proclaiming the glory of state or Church power. E) All of these