What was the effect of the Gold Standard Act of 1900?
A) It defined the value of U. S. paper currency in terms of gold.
B)It defined the exchange rate of U. S. paper currency with other
countries.
C) It limited the amount of money a citizen could possess.
D) It limited the amount of gold a citizen could possess.

How did charles v and philip ii expand the spanish state? they united separate spanish kingdoms into a unified state. they supported protestant rebels in the netherlands. they carried on a successful war against britain. they fought wars and tried to expand catholicism.

In italy, the distance between milan in the north and palermo,sicily, in the south is about 550 miles. in the united states, the distance betweenboston, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, is about 900 miles. do you think the american revolutionaries of 1776 in the 13 colonies faced some of the same challenges as the patriots who struggled for italian unity in the 1860s?  

Look at the painting the lictors bring to brutus the bodies of his sons by jacques-louis david (1789). the most likely message this painting sends to french citizens is that one must be prepared to sacrifice their own children to preserve france. loyalty to one’s country stops short of sacrificing one’s own children. brutality is an integral part of revolution and the reign of terror. no one is immune to death, not even the leaders of the revolution.