How do both the photograph of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Clay Bennett's 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon criticizing the 2001 Patriot Act address a familiar wartime dilemma?
A) The government had to determine how to protect the nation against enemy agents operating
on American soil while safeguarding the privacy rights of Americans at the same time.
B) The government had to address criticism that it had failed to prevent the 9/11 attacks and
justify why it arrested many Arabs and Muslims in response to this attack.
C) The government had to develop new safety measures to protect the American public while
also permitting torture as an interrogation tactic on captured suspects.
D) The government had to establish new measures for gathering intelligence in order to prevent
domestic attacks while simultaneously deciding if search warrants for Internet and phone records
were constitutional.
A
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A) villages sustained by hunting, fishing, and farming. B) complex city-states with large populations. C) the strict separation of church and state. D) a complicated, centralized bureaucracy. E) the fact that religion played a small role in people's lives.
Which of the following was NOT a military innovation of the fourteenth century?
A) stirrups B) crossbow C) longbow D) pike E) gunpowder
Which statement about American views of the French Revolution is FALSE?
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Louis IX died __________.
A. in the second Crusade B. of the Black Death C. in battle against the English D. from an assassin hired by noble opponents of his rule