When the 11,300 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization went on strike in 1981, President Reagan
a. refused to intervene.
b. ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to cut air traffic controllers' working hours to reduce their stressand improve air safety
c. fired the strikers and barred them from ever being rehired as federal air traffic controllers.
d. ordered the National Labor Relations Board to mediate the strike.
c
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What was the significance of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
a. It established the American borders at the Appalachian Mountains. b. It ensured Loyalists would not be compensated for their lands. c. It did not provide a favorable conclusion to the war. d. It allowed Americans the opportunity for an independent nation. e. It provided for fair treatment of Native Americans in America's interior.
Which one of the following was the RESULT of the other three?
A) Philip II sends the Armada against England. B) Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church. C) Elizabeth I takes a moderate approach to religion. D) Francis Drake attacks the Spanish town of Cadiz.
One telling change in literature of the Silver Age came in response to an increasingly irritable imperial rule. What was it?
A. a lack of writing on contemporary affairs and recent history B. an emphasis on comedies C. many contemporary biographies of the emperor D. political poetry E. the development of the farce
Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through
a. scientific observation and experiment. b. the senses. c. divine revelation. d. reason, logic, and critical thinking. e. an inner light.