Who headed the Freedmen’s Bureau?
A) Abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
B) Congressman Thaddeus Stevens
C) General Ben Hur Heston.
D) General Oliver Otis Howard.
D. General Oliver Otis Howard
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Japan began military aggression with the __________
A) occupation of Korea B) invasion and occupation of Manchuria C) bombing of Pearl Harbor D) annexation of Taiwan
Discuss the major developments in corporate business in the later 1940s through the 1950s
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The mature Hebrew view of one God differed from other ancient Near Eastern religions in all the following ways EXCEPT
a. Yahweh was eternal. b. the Hebrew God did not possess human attributes such as anger, jealousy, or satisfaction. c. the Hebrew God was omnipotent, sovereign, and not subject to fate. d. Yahweh was transcendent, that is, he was above nature and not part of it. e. the Hebrew God created a universe that itself was not divine.
How did Spain justify enslaving Native Americans?
a. The Spanish believed that enslavement could liberate Native Americans from their backwardness and savagery and introduce them to Christian civilization. b. Pope Alexander VI had approved Spanish slavery but banned slavery in Portuguese holdings in the New World. c. The writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas explained that the Bible approved slavery and that therefore it was acceptable. d. If England and France were to be defeated in the quest for empire, Spain needed to take a step they had avoided, imposing slavery upon the native population. e. The Spanish actually never enslaved Native Americans; the charge that they did was simply part of the "Black Legend" spread by the English and other enemies.