The National War Labor Board demanded that companies accepting government contracts do all of the following EXCEPT
A) pay their workers a living wage.
B) maintain high safety standards.
C) allow workers to openly oppose the war.
D) honor the eight-hour day and forty-hour week.
E) recognize the right of unions to recruit new members.
Answer: C) allow workers to openly oppose the war.
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Looking at the figure "World population totals and distribution," which of these fluctuated most dramatically from 1000 to 2000 as a proportion of world population?
A) Asia B) Africa C) the Americas D) Oceania
All of the following were nations where the United Nations unsuccessfully intervened EXCEPT
A) Afghanistan B) Yugoslavia C) Somalia D) Rwanda E) Dar Fur
What prevented the Romans from building an empire immediately after their initial war victories?
a. They did not feel that accruing land would contribute to the glory of Rome. b. They did not want the expense of a large army. c. They did not have a substantial enough economy to incorporate new territories. d. Their justifications of war did not support building an empire. e. All of these.
Which of the following statements about John Brown’s raid is LEAST accurate?
a. The raid terrified white southerners, who viewed it as evidence that abolitionism would lead inevitably to slave rebellions. b. The raid drew praise from most northerners, but made prominent whites such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson repudiate the antislavery cause. c. Members of Brown’s raiding party included not only whites but also several black men. d. Brown planned to seize the arsenal at Harpers Ferry as part of a broader plan to instigate a large-scale operation against slavery.