Question 1
Most industry and infrastructure in the West and Midwest during the late nineteenth century was owned by
A) non-resident investors, many of them foreign.
B) the national government.
C) the state government.
D) municipal governments.
E) local investors.
Question 2
Luther's pamphlet, The Address to the Nobility of the German Nation,
A) attacked the sacramental system of the church.
B) focused on the doctrine of salvation and promoted faith works.
C) called on the German princes to overthrow the papacy in German lands.
D) attacked abuses of the Greek Orthodox Church.
E) provided a defense of the doctrine of transubstantiation.
Question 3
In the late nineteenth century, farmers
A) protested the railroads' practice of pooling.
B) protested the railroads' practice of giving rebates to companies that shipped their goods exclusively through one railroad.
C) protested the lower rates that larger companies got from railroads for hauling goods long distances.
D) ultimately reached out to the national government to regulate the unfair treatment they received from railroad and train monopolies.
E) All of these are correct.
Question 4
Luther's break with the church was prompted by
A) the Council of Pisa's declaration that maintained the necessity of purgatory for salvation.
B) the increase of papal taxes on the German peasantry.
C) widespread sale of indulgences by preaching monks.
D) the declaration that the German clergy must pay taxes.
E) the papacy's threat to depose the German emperor.