The Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas, a conquistador-turned-priest,
A) was responsible for the brutal laws oppressing the Indians.
B) became an ardent advocate of Indian rights.
C) was responsible for the bloody annihilation of the Indian population of Tenochtitlan in 1520.
D) was named head of the Council of the Indies in 1518
Ans: B) became an ardent advocate of Indian rights.
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The Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty of 1786
A. was written by James Madison. B. only applied to Christian denominations. C. called for a complete separation of church and state. D. gave all religious denominations special privileges within the state. E. All these answers are correct.
Why did voting decline during the progressive era?
A) Pessimism marked the progressive era, and people did not bother voting as a result. B) Women made up most of the population and their disfranchisement affected turnout. C) Voters focused on social reforms rather than on politics in the progressive era. D) Most of the population was concerned with moral reform rather than political reform. E) People relied on interest groups to bring about change, and did not feel a need to vote.
Colonial rule in Mexico ended in 1821 when the capital was seized by
A. Miguel de Hidalgo. B. José de San Martín. C. Augustín de Iturbide. D. Bernardo O'Higgins. E. Simón Bolívar.
Who was the painter of Rome's Sistine Chapel ceiling?
a. Raphael b. da Vinci c. Botticelli d. Michelangelo e. Brunelleschi