Author Question: The questioning of rationality in so many fields at the turn of the twentieth century undermined ... (Read 81 times)

maegan_martin · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

The Civil War caused which of the following in the North?

a. Mechanization of agriculture slowed.
b. Food shortages frequently led to urban riots.
c. The shift to mechanized agriculture accelerated.
d. New railroad construction increased.

Question 2

The questioning of rationality in so many fields at the turn of the twentieth century undermined liberalism by

a. showing that inalienable human rights are simply a historically based creation of the human mind.
b. concluding that a society cannot function as liberals assumed because people are not rational.
c. arguing that the most basic ideas of human rights and popular sovereignty are simply tools cynically used by elites.
d. offering people more emotion, irrational ideologies.
e. all of the above