Select the correct answer. Why did the Crown pass the so-called Intolerable Acts?
A. to raise revenue for the king
B. to increase trade with the colonies
c. to provoke a revolution in the colonies
D. to punish the colonists for their disobedience

What argument is susan b. anthony making in the passage? a. male citizens created the laws to secure the rights of men, so legal reform is required to secure women’s rights. b. women are often punished for committing criminal acts that are pardoned when committed by men. c. women are judged under laws supposedly written only for males, so they are entitled to the same rights as males. d. the court judge modified the original documents to arrest and try anthony unfairly.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

What was one cause of the decembrist revolt? a. the desire for a constitutional monarchy b. the need for workers’ reforms c. the creation of a new railway line d. the outcome of the crimean war