Members of the institutionalist school of economics such as Richard T. Ely and John R. Commons thought that
A) Darwin's ideas explained how slowly society evolved.
B) religion, not science, was the key to truth.
C) economic problems should be totally divorced from moral concerns.
D) actual industrial conditions should be studied with practical social reform as a goal.
D
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What was the reaction of many northerners to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act?
A) They joined with southerners to prevent runaway slaves from escaping to Canada. B) Although some Northerners saw the act as the price of saving the Union, many more saw it as a vile monument of infamy and therefore took up the abolition cause. C) They began campaigns to repeal the old "personal-liberty laws" that had been passed under the Articles of Confederation. D) In Boston and other northern cities, mobs surrounded houses where runaway slaves were hiding, and forced the owners to surrender the fugitives. E) They built special jails to accommodate slaves captured on northern soil.
The Donner Party are most remembered for their perilous ordeal when they
a. traveled a little-known shortcut that slowed their journey through a harsh winter, forcing some of them to resort to cannibalism. b. left for California too late in the season and, to survive a harsh winter in the Sierras, resorted to cannibalism. c. resorted to cannibalism of Indians to survive a harsh winter in the mountains. d. were trapped by snow on their way to join fellow Mormons in Salt Lake City and had to resort to cannibalism to survive.
The weapon that the British used successfully against the French in the Hundred Years? War was the
A) cross bow B) gunpowder C) long bow D) lance E) musket
How did John Harrison and Joseph Banks contribute to the use of practical science by the late eighteenth century?
a. They pioneered translating the scientific outlook into real-world applications. b. They made Greenwich, and thus Britain, the center of the world. c. Banks developed Kew Gardens as the world center of botany. d. Their science supported the increasing power of Britain. e. All of these