What did Gouverneur Morris propose as Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention?
A) a tax to pay for nationwide emancipation
B) the immediate emancipation of all slaves
C) a compromise that allowed individual states to rule on slavery
D) a ban on the slave trade
Answer: A
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The Israelite prophets contributed to all of the following except
a. the campaign to turn people against false gods and toward Yahweh. b. the purification of Jewish faith by demanding righteousness of its followers. c. the consolidation of the ten lost tribes of Israel. d. the Biblical interpretation of Israelite national success.
How did most Americans react to the campus demonstrations of 1970?
A) They criticized campus protesters for undercutting the nation's foreign policy. B) They blamed the Nixon administration for widening the war, and they applauded the goals of the campus demonstrators. C) They retreated from traditional American policies and sought new answers in mystic cults, communes, or the ecology movement. D) They became increasingly radicalized and in the November election voted for radical or left-wing Democratic candidates. E) They launched counter protests against the students.
In the chilling atmosphere of the emerging Cold War, African Americans who had associated with the Communist Party in the 1930s __________
A) were rounded up and jailed B) were often on the political defensive and forced to disavow those associations C) treated as heroes and celebrated for those associations D) forced to become exiles to Canada or Europe
What was the Italian Renaissance?
a. A mass movement of the peasants against aristocrats b. A movement preoccupied with economic reform c. A product of rural Italy focused on agricultural development d. A recovery or rebirth of antiquity and Greco-Roman culture e. A religious reform movement