Epicurus valued, above all
A) the pursuit of wealth.
B) the pursuit of "dynamic" pleasures.
C) worship of the gods.
D) calmness, poise, and serenity of mind.
E) the pursuit of public office.
D
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In which way did the richest plantation families resemble a traditional landed aristocracy?
a. Planters’ daughters were trained from childhood to play piano, speak French, and dress in the latest fashions. b. Planters collected taxes from the peasants who worked their land. c. Planters operated under the principles of noblesse oblige. d. Planters’ daughters were often betrothed during their childhood years.
Which of the following helps explains the rapid growth of discriminatory laws in the late nineteenth- century South?
a. Many northerners had lost interest in guarding the rights of blacks. b. The black population of the South was growing faster than the white population of the South. c. Race relations were destabilized by industrialization in the South. d. Supreme Court rulings favoring minority rights created a white backlash.
Opposition to President Tyler's plan for the annexation of Texas primarily came from __________
a. northern antislavery Whigs b. southern agricultural interests c. New England merchants d. Great Britain e. railroad companies
The Populists were able to successfully elect a president of the United States
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.