Landlords considered Russian serfs to be ________
A. priceless agricultural specialists
B. economic commodities
C. an endless supply of tax revenue
D. responsible professionals
Answer: B
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All of the following circumstances caused Philip II economic problems EXCEPT
A) the reliance on specie from the Americas. B) the underproduction of food. C) the presence of large unskilled Arab and Jewish populations. D) tax-exempted nobilities. E) weak financial and industrial infrastructures.
Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
a. Newtonian principles may be related to applied mechanics. b. Paracelsian ideas were never accepted because they always retained magical connotations. c. William Harvey compared the heart to a pump. d. Vesalius was a proponent of dissection of corpses. e. The day-to-day practice of medicine changed little between 1600 and 1700.
In their campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment, antifeminist leaders a. proposed progressive legislation to guarantee just compensation to working women and federal aid toworking mothers
b. argued in favor of passing new laws that would relegate women to an inferior status in American society. c. argued that the ERA would decriminalize rape and make women subject to the military draft. d. engaged in a reasoned debate with those who supported the amendment.
After Republicans nominated John C. Frémont for president in 1856, the Republican party platform called for all of the following except which one?
a. slavery be eliminated from all states admitted since 1820 b. congressional prohibition of polygamy c. federal subsidy for a Pacific railroad d. Kansas be admitted to the union as a free state