What helped spark the civil war in Saint-Domingue?
a. The gens de couleur demanded liberty and equality.
b. The literate population rejected the principles of the American and French Revolutions.
c. The gens de couleur and French planters wanted to end slavery.
d. African slaves attacked estates and manor houses.
e. White settlers and gens de couleur joined forces to put down a slave rebellion.
a
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What was one important difference between the Virginia and Maryland colonies?
a) Economic motives played a more important role in the founding of Virginia, while religious motives played a more important role in the founding of Maryland. b) Religious motives played a more important role in the founding of Virginia, while economic motives played a more important role in the founding of Maryland. c) Virginia’s economy depended on rice cultivation, while Maryland’s economy depended on sugar production. d) Maryland’s economy depended on rice cultivation, while Virginia’s economy depended on sugar production.
The Edmunds Act did which of the following?
A) banned Chinese immigration to the United States B) outlawed polygamy and appointed a federal commission to supervise elections in Utah C) resumed the coinage of silver D) established a merit system for federal job applicants
Which of these was not among Barack Obama's objectives when he first took office in 2009?
A) closing Guantanamo prison. B) winning the Nobel Peace Prize. C) ending the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy in the military. D) lifting the ban on stem-cell research. E) seeking alternative energy sources.
The "clash of civilizations" model predicts that the future will be characterized by
a. hypernationalism and personal identification based on nation-states. b. greater competition between multinational corporations. c. a resurgence of religious, ethnic, and cultural conflict. d. the last world war and the collapse of the Western "modernity."