Which Portuguese state leader initiated the European age of exploration?
a. Vasco de Gama
b. Prince Henry the Navigator
c. Bartholomeu Dias
d. Francis Drake
e. Amerigo Vespucci
b
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Which delegates left Philadelphia as a protest against the Constitution providing too much power for the central government?
a. John Lansing, Robert Yates, and John Mercer b. James Madison, Oliver Ellsworth, and Roger Sherman c. Alexander Hamilton and George Mason d. Gouverneur Morris, James Madison, and John Mercer
Which of the following best describes China's path to modernization before the May Fourth Movement?
a. China lacked key preconditions, such as high levels of literacy. b. China's Confucian ruling ideology blocked Westernization. c. China modernized more rapidly than Japan because of its capacity to assimilate. d. China followed a separate, non-Western path to modernization.
How did this image, which was made shortly after Lincoln's assassination and captures popular anger against the war and a call to execute Jefferson Davis, contradict Lincoln's message in his Second Inaugural Address in which he stated "With malice toward none, with charity for all,…let us…bind up the nation's wounds…"?
A) Lincoln had desired a peaceful reconciliation with the Confederacy. B) Lincoln's address actually called for harsher punishments for the South. C) Lincoln had called for Lee's execution, not Davis's. D) Lincoln wanted Davis executed in retaliation for John Brown's execution.
After his escape from Elba, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of
a. Waterloo. b. the Bulge. c. Britain. d. Scappa Flow. e. Stalingrad.