William Tweed of Tammany Hall was known for intimidating voters in order to influence election results
A) True
B) False
A
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During the Qing Dynasty, Chinese writing took on a new tone, with stories more often written about what?
A) court life B) the lives of ordinary people C) the emperor and his family D) the change in dynasties E) political disagreements
Within a single generation of Columbus's death, Spanish conquistadores
A) failed to expand beyond the Caribbean. B) explored, claimed, and conquered most of South America and Central America, but had not yet reached North America. C) explored, claimed, and conquered most of South America, Central America, and parts of North America. D) conquered and claimed Central America.
The pragmatists were a school of American philosophers who emphasized
a. the provisional and fallible nature of knowledge and the value of ideas that solved problems. b. that most academic knowledge was based on bourgeois ideas that oppressed the working class. c. that the traditional Greek ideals of Plato and Aristotle should be revived. d. that scientific experimentation provided a new and absolutely certain basis for knowledge. e. All of these choices are correct.
The first Russian ruler who took the title of tsar, who expanded the territories of Russia to the east, and who crushed the power of the nobility was
a. Peter the Great. b. Michael Romanov. c. Alexander II. d. Ivan IV. e. Vlad the Impaler.