Which of the following statements is false?
a. By 1773, it was clear that a colonial rebellion was inevitable.
b. British officials granted the British East India Company a monopoly in the colonies to prevent its bankruptcy.
c. Anger at the tea tax led to mass efforts to turn cargo ships around in New York, Philadelphia, and Annapolis.
d. Bostonians dressed as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor in protest of the tea tax.
e. Some Bostonians supported the Boston Tea Party; others disagreed with the destruction of property.
a
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Which of the following best explains why a worker in Great Britain might have rejected Marx's ideas by the last half of the nineteenth century?
A. The rationale behind the ideas expressed in The Communist Manifesto had been disproven. B. The state suppressed political dissent and threatened individuals who espoused Marxism. C. Workers had benefited from the existing industrial system. D. As science became more influential, it helped to show the flaws in Marx's ideology.
The Greek philosopher Epicurus believed that
a. one should lead a life in pursuit of pleasure. b. there are moral absolutes. c. the key to happiness was participation in the life of the community. d. the gods participate in our lives.
In the 1950s, U.S. policy in Latin America
a. initiated social and economic reforms. b. encouraged and supported the spread of democracy. c. often supported military dictatorships that suppressed leftist movements. d. withdrew support from oppressive regimes. e. supported Communist regimes.
Among the cross-cultural intellectual exchanges between China and Europe, variolation was
a. when diplomats spontaneously combusted. b. immunization by vaccine. c. a bilingual printing of trade contracts. d. drawing maps that showed the Eastern as well as the Western world. e. a means by which Chinese physicians compared European anatomy to that of Asians.