As a young lawyer, what did Clarence Darrow believe?
A) Aiding the poor would interfere with the evolutionary process.
B) Capitalism must be overthrown.
C) Without poverty, there would be no crime.
D) Capital punishment is essential to the maintenance of civil order.
E) A "single tax" on corporate profits would solve all social problems.
Answer: C
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The shift in American public opinion in favor of an Allied victory in World War I occurred when
A) Austria attacked Serbia. B) Wilson was reelected in 1916. C) Germany attacked England. D) Germany sank the Lusitania.
Which of the following most accurately describes the attitude of seventeenth century Puritans toward religious liberty?
a. Having suffered persecution in England they extended toleration to everyone b. They tolerated no one whose expressed religious view varied from their own views c. They tolerated Catholics, but not Quakers d. They had no coherent views on religious liberty e. They tolerated all Protestant sects, but not Catholics
Herbert Spencer's theory, based upon Charles Darwin's scientific theory, which held that society developed much like plant or animal life through a process of evolution in which the most fit and capable enjoyed the greatest material and social success
a. social Darwinism b. instrumentalism c. naturalism d. pragmatism
The Stoics' concept of Logos led them to conclude that
a. the universe is ruled by natural law. b. natural law is knowable and can teach each person what is good and what is evil. c. since all people, regardless of conventional distinctions, share in the Logos, all people have dignity and all are fundamentally equal. d. living in agreement with nature means conforming to the dictates of reason. e. all of the above