After being kidnapped as a child and enslaved in a household in Boston, Phillis Wheatley
Answer: became the first black American to publish a book.
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With regard to women in Western society during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
a. Enlightenment thinkers made women's equality possible though most philosophes were against it. b. some prominent men did support equal rights for women. c. there persisted a very strong sentiment that women by nature should be subordinated to men and that their profession was married life. d. the movement for women's equality increasing developed a political element: the fight to grant women the vote. e. all of the above
What governmental issue was championed, although for different reasons, by both Progressives and socialists?
A) the federal regulation and inspection of meat B) the creation of city-run utilities C) the use of violent strikes by urban workers D) desegregated facilities for African Americans
Who was the most prominent of the northern humanists?
A) Desiderius Erasmus B) Dirk Bouts C) Thomas More D) Jan van Eyck E) Dante Alighieri
The doctrines of the Sophists encouraged all of the following EXCEPT
a. loss of respect for authority. b. disobedience to law. c. neglect of civic duty. d. selfish individualism. e. sophrosyne.