Which of Augustine's assertions did the Church more or less ignore until the Protestant Reformation?
a. his statement that the state must sometimes employ repression to maintain order and defend the innocent
b. his statement that human nature is weak and subject to temptation
c. his statement that very few people were destined for salvation
d. his distinction between the City of Man and the City of God
e. his assertion that the meaning of history was not bound up with the fate of the Roman Empire
c
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Which of the following was true of the Atlantic slave trade?
A) Several million Africans died on their journey to the Americas. B) More than 40 million Africans were enslaved and taken to the Americas. C) The Atlantic slave trade went into decline after 1740. D) The Spanish dominated the Atlantic slave trade in eighteenth century.
In 1890, Congress tried to restore competition by outlawing the restraint of interstate trade by corporate monopolies with the ________ Act
A) Sherman Antitrust B) Granger C) Northern Securities D) Hepburn
How did the United States gain unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and New Orleans?
A) By sending 3,000 regulars and Kentucky militiamen across the river into Spanish territory B) By signing an alliance with France against Spain C) By purchasing New Orleans from the French D) By blockading the entrance to the Mississippi and starving the city into submission E) By negotiating an agreement with Spain, which came to be known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo
Under the Articles of Confederation
a. a unicameral Congress was to be the chief agency of national government. b. there was no executive branch of national government. c. each state remained essentially sovereign. d. major legislation required a two-thirds vote to pass Congress. e. a strong national judiciary was established.