If the ethnic and income divisions overlap, then it is likely that ________
A. conflicts that arise between rich and poor may be dampened by ethnic allegiances
across social classes
B. politics would be destabilized by the intensification of disagreements between
groups
C. socio-economic conflicts will dissolve because of the underlying similarities in the
competing groups
D. citizens would value their strong attachments for the entire national community,
over their differences in income and ethnicity
E. elements of the resource curse will be neutralized by the cross-cutting cleavages of
income and ethnicity
B
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At the start of World War I, Britain, France, and Russia belonged to the
a. Triple Entente. b. United Nations. c. World Trade Organization. d. Triple Alliance.
The Sugar Act of 1764 placed tariffs and duties on goods imported into the colonies by England. However, its political significance was that
a. sugar was a vital staple of all colonists and the tariffs made it much more expensive and inaccessible for the average household. b. as the first law passed by parliament for the purpose of raising money for England at the expense of the colonies it opened the debate by the colonists of taxation without representation. c. the law created a state of sovereignty in the colonies. d. it unified England’s alliances with sugar-producing Caribbean island colonies. e. it unified alliances between the American colonies and the Caribbean nations that also produced and exported sugar.