Question 8(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) (01.02 LC) Which statement best describes "Bleeding Kansas"? Natural disasters in Kansas resulted in the death of settlers there. The Missouri Compromise guaranteed that Kansas would be a slave state. Abolitionists and pro-slavery settlers fought about whether Kansas would be a free or slave state. A free and fair election determined whether Kansas would be a free or slave state.

Based on the information on the left, what can be inferred about women’s earning power in the developed world?

Match the following: 1. empirical the belief that an idea should be evaluated based on how it works 2. fundamentalism knowledge based on observation and experiment rather than theory 3. obtrusive to intentionally force ideas or intrude on others 4. pragmatism not religious or spiritual in nature 5. secular a religious doctrine that emphasizes a return to rigid principles

Read a report of the paris medical faculty from 1348 about the plague. we can say that the main cause of this pestilence was and is the configuration of the heavens. in 1345, at 1: 00 in the afternoon of march 20th, there was a major conjunction of three planets in the constellation of aquarius. this conjunction, along with others like it and the eclipse caused a deadly corruption of the air around us. what is the most likely reason this document would be important to a historian’s study of the black death? a) it shows the importance of astronomy in medicine today. b) it shows how medicine once differed in paris and london. c) it shows how the plague’s cause was interpreted in the past. d) it shows the desperation to find a cause of the black death.