What is meant by this statement: "The elements that sparked a powerful sense of nationalism among colonists dispersed over a huge territory would not be evident for a long time"?
A) The colonists tended to dislike the colonists in regions other than their own.
B) The colonies were getting very close to forming an independent country.
C) The colonies were still separate and had very little to do with each other.
D) The colonies had expanded to a huge area of the country.
E) The colonists saw themselves as English first and Americans second.
Answer: C
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Which reflects a laissez-faire government attitude in the late nineteenth century?
A. Grover Cleveland dispatching soldiers to quell labor strikes. B. The creation of the Populist Party to protect farmers' interests. C. Employers not being required to compensate employees for on-site injuries. D. Government granting land to railroads in exchange for laying tracks.
Why did early Christian congregations resist the tendency that many religions have to splinter as they spread?
A) Christians believed that Christ was going to return and end history, forcing them to cooperate and pool their resources together. B) Part of their belief system included a respect for diverse opinions, which allowed congregations to voice dissent without the worry of sparking theological disputes. C) The Christian congregations were too small at this point in history to splinter. D) They were united though a common ancestral heritage, with Christianity a secondary identity for Roman citizens. E) Missionary work in the thinly populated countryside gave Christian leaders an outlet for possible troublemakers.
All of the following are true of Renaissance art EXCEPT:
A. art tended to be abstract and formulaic. B. art emphatically embraced the natural world. C. works were given rational, even mathematical, order. D. artwork reflected symmetry, and proportion reflected a belief in the harmony of the universe. E. art embraced human emotions.
Friedrich List, the German economist, rejected laissez faire and free trade and argued that
a. England was unfairly oppressing religious minorities into serfdom. b. Germany could only effectively compete with Britain by erecting tariffs against British imports. c. capitalism was doomed to fail in the wake of violent revolution between the haves and have-nots. d. laissez-faire economics could not work in continental Europe because of nationalist interests. e. Adam Smith was wrong, and mercantilism was the correct and best economic model.