Why do some historians regard Bacon's New Atlantis as the first ...

[809779]

Why do some historians regard Bacon's New Atlantis as the first modern utopia?
 
  a. It was one of the more recent visions for a perfect society.
  b. Its politics are progressive.
  c. It was based on science.
  d. It is less radical than Plato's Republic.
  e. Its author expected it to serve as a precise blueprint for the future.

Question 2

To circumvent the right to vote given to African Americans under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870), southern states employed the white primary to limit the political influence of blacks. In Smith v. Allwright (1944), the Supreme Court held that
 
  a. primaries based on race were illegal.
  b. poll taxes and literacy tests were unconstitutional.
  c. the primaries were a matter for party control and could not be regulated by government.
  d. poll watchers and registrars must be dispatched by the U.S. Justice Department to nine southern states andparts of seven others.

[pratush dev]

Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

a

[809779]

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[laurnthompson]

Excellent