What do historians call the medieval European social system? A) feudalism B) socialism C) capitalism D) primitivism ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
As a young lawyer, what did Clarence Darrow believe? a. Aiding the poor would interfere with the evolutionary process. b. Capitalism must be overthrown. c. Without poverty, there would be no crime. d. Capital punishment is essential to the maintenance of civil order. e. A “single tax” on corporate profits would solve all social problems. […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
How did English economic and social conditions in the sixteenth century affect English expansion? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: inflation, enclosure; economic dislocation; wool trade
Date: September 9th, 2020
The leading figure at the Albany Congress, and designer of the Albany Plan, was __________. a. Thomas Jefferson b. George Washington c. William Pitt d. John Adams e. Benjamin Franklin ANSWER E
Date: September 9th, 2020
New Amsterdam became a part of the British empire because __________. A) Holland sold it to King Charles II B) English settlers overwhelmed Dutch merchants C) Britain conquered it in an Anglo-Dutch war D) Parliament passed an act claiming the colony ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Samuel Adams was a: a. Philadelphia merchant who sold tea smuggled from Holland b. Boston radical leader who organized the Sons of Liberty c. New York lawyer who supported the new British revenue acts d. Boston merchant who supported revived trade and compromise with Britain ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
One outcome of King William’s War was __________. A) all colonies lost their charters B) a tightening of royal rule over the colonies C) English conquest of most French settlements on the St. Lawrence D) greater religious freedom on the frontier ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The failure of the Albany Plan can be attributed, primarily, to the __________. a. opposition of British authorities b. fiscal jealousies of colonial assemblies c. beginning of the French and Indian War d. refusal of the Iroquois tribes to support it e. lack of interest from colonial representatives ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Most early South Carolina settlers came from __________. A) Scotland B) Barbados C) France D) the north of England ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
__________ led the NAACP’s legal team in the Brown v. Board of Education case. A) Earl Warren B) Kenneth Clark C) Thurgood Marshall D) Byron White ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
