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Questions in history

[Free] Research Government Surveillance of US citizens. How does it clash with our right to privacy? Is the federal government infringing on citizens’ rights? Or do the ends justify the means? Give specific examples of what you consider an infringement and what you consider justifiable.

[Free] Filipino resistance to Spanish intrusion came from A. the central government. B. small, disunited chiefdoms. C. young educated people. D. Filipino elites and landholders.

[Free] To reduce government spending and balance the budget, the Franklin Roosevelt Administration cut back on federal construction projects during the Great Depression of the 1930s. True or False?

[Free] Which mariners built the earliest trading-post empire? A. English B. Portuguese C. Dutch D. Spanish

[Free] What was the layout of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz? Source 1: Interview with an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor in 1985. Source 2: Map of the concentration camp found in Nazi files. Which do you trust?

[Free] According to the English Bill of Rights, who makes laws regarding taxation? A. monarchs B. Parliament C. the judiciary D. the military

[Free] On several occasions, Spanish and Filipino residents reacted violently to the commercial success of which merchants? A. English B. Dutch C. Chinese D. Mexican

[Free] - History provides us a sense of our own identity. - History helps us better understand the present. - History-when done well-is a corrective for misleading analogies and "lessons" of the past - History enables us to understand the tendencies of humankind, of social institutions, and all aspects of the human condition. - History can help one develop tolerance and open-mindedness. - History provides the basic background for many other disciplines. - History can be entertainment. - The careful study of history teaches us many critical thinking skills. A. "History is a means of access to ourselves." (Lynn White Jr.) B. "The chief lesson to be derived from the study of the past, is that it holds no simple less, and ...the historian's main responsibility is to prevent anyone from claiming that it does." (Martin Duberman) C. "History provides a training ground for development of many valuable intellectual traits." (Anonymous) D. "History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction--the majest of the epic; the moving accidents of the drama, and the surprises of the romance." (Robert A Willmott) E. "History can help us shake off the shackles of ethnocentrism and the debilitating bias of cultural and racial purity. (Lester Stephens) F. "In an age when so much of our literature is infused with nihilism and other social disciplines are driven toward narrow inquiry, history may remain the most humanizing of the arts." (Richard Hofstader) G. "Everything is the sum of its past and nothing is comprehensible except through history." (Pierre Tethard de Chardin) H. "The study of history is in the truest sense and education and a training for political life" (Polybius)

[Free] Popularly known as the Fitzgerald Act, this 1937 federal legislation established protection for which kind of worker? A. Construction workers B. Government workers C. Apprentices D. Female workers

[Free] On several occasions, Spanish and Filipino residents reacted violently to the commercial success of A. English B. Dutch C. Chinese D. Mexican merchants.