What accounts for the emergence of feudalism as the dominant social system in medieval Europe?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. The ninth and tenth centuries were characterized by political fragmentation and foreign invasion.
b. The collapse of the Carolingian Empire left a power vacuum that would be filled by warlords, some of whom would establish kingdoms.
c. In the feudal system, lords provided protection and usually land (called a fief) to their vassals.
d. In exchange, vassals pledged their loyalty to their lord and provided military service.
e. These personal ties of loyalty and service linked lords and vassals together in a mutually dependent and beneficial relationship.
f. In the absence of a centralized state, lords often assumed the duties of a government.
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How were free people of color treated in the Old South?
What will be an ideal response?
The late-nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward
A. suggested that industrialism was creating "organization men." B. argued that people could do little to alter the economic stratification of society. C. sought to apply Darwinian laws to human society. D. believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society. E. believed that government intervention in society would be harmful.
Roosevelt's plan to integrate the military resulted in the suspension of A. Philip Randolph's call for a march on Washington
A) True B) False
The origins of the modern plantation system can be found in the
a. American South. b. Arab slave trade. c. Portuguese slave trade. d. European feudal system. e. African slave system.