How and why did American attitudes change during the nineteenth century regarding leisure activities?
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As a result of the growth of Christianity throughout Europe, Jews
A. were increasingly venerated as the followers of the first monotheistic religion. B. were increasingly discriminated against and made to live apart from the mainstream of society. C. readily converted to Christianity. D. gained increasing control over Europe's Afroeurasian trade routes.
Why did communist governments rapidly collapse throughout Europe during the late 1980s and early 1990s?
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The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision argued that
A) race-based affirmative action programs in colleges and universities were constitutional. B) the federal government has no jurisdiction over private matters like racial discrimination. C) separation of the races is legal as long as each race has equal accommodations and facilities. D) separate facilities are inherently unequal.
Which statement provides the best interpretation of this sentence from text page 53? “The diversity of early English colonization must be emphasized precisely because it is so easy to overlook.”
A) Most historians did not realize how similar the English colonies were when they were initially settled. B) The reasons that people settled the English colonies were so complex that they have only begun to be understood recently. C) Settlers of the English colonies tended to overlook the hardships that they would face because they were so eager for religious freedom. D) The experiences of the early English colonists cannot be separated from their experiences back in England. E) Because most of the colonists were English, and eventually formed a single nation, many assume that they were originally more alike than different.