What factors motivated the persistence of the idea of dividing California into a northern state and a southern territory?
a. The tax system emphasized land and possessions, not wealth, thus disadvantaging the ranchos of southern California.
b. The southern regions felt they were politically dominated by the north.
c. Some white newcomers from the southern slave-holding region saw an opportunity for the creation of a new slave state.
d. All of the above.
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Social divisions in the Roman Empire, compared to south Asian castes, were ________
A) more simplistic and porous B) simple but more rigidly defined C) nonexistent D) more generally based on race
How did the ideas promoted by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois contradict each other?
A) Washington believed in the good of an industrial society, whereas Du Bois saw the dehumanizing nature of industrialism. B) Washington believed in African Americans gradually gaining rights, whereas Du Bois believed in all rights being demanded by all people immediately. C) Washington believed that unions decreased the efficiency of production, whereas Du Bois believed in the power of unions to support workers. D) Washington believed the woman's place was in the home, whereas Du Bois believed in women's rights to vote, work, and contraception. E) Washington believed in an expansion of U.S. influence in the world, whereas Du Bois believed in the country isolating itself from everyone.
Which of the following was true of suburban growth between 1950 and 1970?
A) The suburban population more than doubled. B) The suburban population grew substantially more diverse. C) The suburbs began a process of slow decline. D) The suburbs struggled to attract middle-class families.
Which statement best describes the First International?
a. It failed due to Marx's preoccupation with Das Kapital. b. It became the largest working-class trade union in Europe in the nineteenth century. c. It was rejected by Marxism as a "bourgeois-dominated institution." d. It served as a type of umbrella organization for all European labor interests. e. It led the various revolutionary movements in the uprisings of 1848.