In modern terminology, what is the best definition of a polis?
A) county
B) city-state
C) town meeting
D) nation
E) province
B
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Which one of the following was NOT damaging to the continuation of the New Deal?
A) President Roosevelt's plan to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court B) federal spending cutbacks in 1937 C) President Roosevelt's attempt to "purge" southern Democrats in the 1938 congressional elections D) the Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of the Wagner Act
During McCarthy's communist hunting, he found
a) no confirmed communists. b) one confirmed communist. c) three confirmed communists. d) 57 confirmed communists. e) 227 confirmed communists.
What did the encyclical Rerum novarum affirm for the Catholic Church?
A) The need for an armed guard for the Catholic Church. B) That Catholics and socialists had essentially the same belief pattern. C) The ideals of social justice and opposition to atheistic socialism. D) That the priests were infallible and should be followed without fail. E) That labor unions would solve the problems of modern societies.
In 1860, the percentage of the population in the South living in towns (places of 2,500 or more) or cities (8,000 or more) was
A. 33 percent. B. 20 percent. C. 10 percent. D. 15 percent. E. 5 percent.