In the 1860s, Napoleon III made concessions to the liberals ________
A. to compensate for his failures in foreign policy
B. to stifle growing calls for a revolution
C. to deflect attention away from his failures in domestic reforms
D. in an attempt to suppress a military coup
Answer: A
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Faced with public clamor for war with Spain, McKinley
A) played upon and increased the war fever by his irresponsible statements. B) caved in to pressures from Wall Street investors who wanted war. C) refused to panic, but reluctantly and hesitantly sent Congress a war message. D) refused to send a declaration of war to Congress, which declared war on its own.
What conditions undercut the position of the Brazilian sugar plantation economy?
A) A demographic disaster among the Indians of Brazil resulted in a shortage of labor for the sugar plantations shortly after 1700. B) Competition from English, French, and Dutch plantation colonies in the Caribbean led to rising prices for slaves and falling prices for sugar. C) The European market was flooded with sugar supplied from Asian colonies. D) A series of unusually wet winters flooded the traditional sugar regions and caused Brazilian planters to seek new land for the production of sugar.
According to the authors of your text, the central message of the romantics was
a. the liberty and equality proclaimed by the Revolution must be secured. b. faith must be upheld. c. imagination was important, but feelings were not. d. poetry should not seek to philosophize. e. the individual imagination was primary in artistic creation.
With regard to law, traditional Sophists argued that ________
A. there is no identifiable conflict between nature and law B. law is in accord with nature and is of divine origin C. law is merely the result of convention D. it is not possible to analyze human beliefs and institutions E. law requires much speculation about the physical universe to be understood