The basis of Latin American wealth, social prestige, and power throughout the nineteenth century was:
a. gold.
b. sugar cane.
c. cattle
d. land
e. heritage
d
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What was the MOST important reason the North American colonists supported Parliament's ouster of James II in favor of James's daughter Mary and her husband Prince William of Orange?
A) The colonists feared Catholicism would be coming to dominate the colonies in North America. B) The colonists resented the undesired royal merger of the colonies by James II as well as the king and the royal governor who were enforcing it. C) The colonists believed Mary and Prince William of Orange, rulers of the Netherlands, would be more benevolent and less authoritarian rulers of the colonies. D) The colonists no longer believed that the English monarchy had an authority to rule over the colonies.
The modern notion of government divided into branches was most clearly articulated by
a. Hobbes. b. Locke. c. Montesquieu. d. Rousseau. e. Leszczy ski.
The ideals of the Enlightenment that shaped the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 included
a. the destruction of the privilege and despotism of the Old Order. b. the emancipation of humanity from superstition and tradition. c. the refashioning of institutions according to reason and justice. d. the elimination of barriers to inequality. e. all of the above
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry protested the discrimination and unequal pay in the army by __________.
A. going AWOL B. going on a hunger strike C. marching on Washington D. refusing pay until they were treated equally