All of the following were attributes of the Second Estate EXCEPT
a. uniformity of background and solidarity of purpose.
b. approximately 350,000 individuals out of a population of 26 million.
c. exemption from most taxes and the power to collect manorial dues from the peasants.
d. possession of the highest positions in the army, church and government.
e. some engagement in banking, finance, commerce, and industry.
a
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colonies caused political, social, and economic instability during andafter the war. d. Because of heavy casualties during the war, the middle colonies experienced severe labor shortages andeconomic stagnation in the war's aftermath.
The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to
A. ignite such anger in the South that several states soon seceded from the Union. B. spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience. C. offer the first written history of American slavery. D. help humanize southern slaveholders in the minds of northern readers. E. reveal the ugly extent of the vicious slave trade to America.
The Napoleonic Code generally __________.
A. confirmed the social changes of the French Revolution B. rejected the French Revolution's attitudes toward society C. invoked spiritual authority D. was intended to be specific to the French people
Who wrote the landmark feminist work Feminine Mystique in 1963?
A. Joyce Carol Oates B. Betty Friedan C. Flannery O'Connor D. Sylvia Plath