The most famous institution dedicated to the new sciences was the ________
A. Berlin Academy of Science
B. Royal Society of London
C. University of Paris
D. French Academy of Science
E. court of Louis XIV
Answer: B
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The western land boom from 1791 to 1824 resulted from all of the following except
a. the Land Act of 1820 and the development of inexpensive transportation to and through the Northwest and West. b. land exhaustion in older tobacco states. c. acute economic distress in the East during the embargo years prompted many Americans to settle in the West. d. the frontier was pacified in the Northwest and South with the military defeats of the Indians. e. the construction of railroad lines west of the Mississippi River.
Why did southern anxiety increase in the 1850s? What contributed to the South's sense of being beleaguered?
What will be an ideal response?
The purpose of the 21st Amendment, enacted in December 1933, was to
A) repeal the Prohibition Amendment. B) give women the right to vote. C) enlarge the size of the Supreme Court. D) outlaw discrimination in federal hiring. E) change the date of the presidential inauguration from March to January.
Homer's legacy to the Greeks was
a. an accurate historical record of past Greek events. b. important in inculcating the aristocratic values of courage and honor. c. a foundation of egalitarianism in Greek politics. d. actually written by a Phoenician trader. e. the first work to use the Cyrillic alphabet.