Olaudah Equiano was first captured as a child in Africa by the Portuguese, and taken immediately to a slave ship bound for the Americas.
a. true
b. false
Ans: b. false
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a. Mary Dyer. b. Anne Hutchinson. c. Samuel Gorton. d. Henry Dinster. e. John Winthrop.
Why did Louis XVI call a meeting of the Estates-General in 1788?
A) He was interested in dissolving the power of absolutism in monarchy. B) He feared for his life and the lives of his family members as France had become so unruly. C) He wanted to form an alliance with Austria to ease economic and political tensions. D) He wanted to reinstate the Edict of Nantes. E) He felt pressure from the three estates to find a solution to the financial crisis facing France.
Taking all things into consideration, which of the following is the most important reason for the Senate's defeat of the Treaty of Versailles and United States membership in the League of Nations?
A. Wilson was unable to lobby effectively for the treaty because of his stroke and subsequent incapacitation. B. Americans were unwilling to abandon the nation's traditional attachment to nonalignment and freedom of choice in international affairs. C. Wilson's refusal to compromise with his opponents in the Senate doomed the treaty. D. The treaty was condemned to defeat because of the bitter personal feud between Wilson and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
Which people laid the foundations for the alphabets used throughout the West?
A) Babylonians B) Sumerians C) Persians D) Phoenicians