European History : Rights; Liberties; Persecution
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Example Question #1 : Rights; Liberties; Persecution
Which of these political figures spearheaded the movement to abolish the practice of slavery in Great Britain and its colonies in the late 18th century?
Samuel Pepys
William Wilberforce
Samuel T. Coleridge
Sir William Garrow
John Locke
William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) was an early leader of the movement to end slavery in the British empire. He became a politician early in his life and would go on to campaign tirelessly against the practice of slavery.
His actions in part led to the Slave Trade Act of 1807 abolishing the Atlantic slave trade, and later on the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, abolishing slavery in most of the British empire. He died only days after the Act was passed.
Example Question #2 : Rights; Liberties; Persecution
"Over One Million Armenians Salughtered by Turks"
"Death Camp discovered at Auschwitz"
"Slobodan Milosevic, 'Butcher of the Balkans,' Convicted of War Crimes"
Which issue are all of the above headlines most closely related to?
Popular sovereignty
Human trafficking
Genocide
Islamic terrorism
The Cold War
Genocide
Genocide, sometimes called "Ethnic cleansing," is the attempt to cause the extinction of a particular group of people.
During World War I, Turkish soldiers slaughtered more than half the population of Armenians in the country.
Auschwitz was the most notorious of the Nazi death camps in what was known as the Holocaust, the systematic slaughter of more than 11 million civilians, half of whom were Jewish, during World War II.
Milosevic was the president of Yugoslavia in the 1990's and but was deposed and convicted of genocide and other war crimes against his own people by the United Nations.
Example Question #3 : Rights; Liberties; Persecution
The original purpose of the Spanish Inquisition was to ___________________.
undermine political opponents
enforce religious orthodoxy, particularly among newly converted Muslims and Jews
censor publications that were considered heretical
persecute Protestant reformers in Spain
remove priests who were not loyal to the crown
enforce religious orthodoxy, particularly among newly converted Muslims and Jews
After the Reconquista, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella issued royal decrees declaring that Jews and Muslims had to convert to Christianity or leave Spain. The original purpose of the Spanish Inquisition was to enforce religious orthodoxy among these new converts.
Example Question #4 : Rights; Liberties; Persecution
What did the Nuremberg Laws do?
Established concentration camps in Germany and Poland
Deprived German Jews of their citizenship
Seized property from opponents of the Nazi government
Authorized the Gestapo to use force against citizens
Prohibited strikes and replaced unions with the Nazi Labor Front
Deprived German Jews of their citizenship
The Nuremburg Laws were passed by the Nazi government in 1935. They stripped German Jews of their citizenship and prohibited marriages or other relationships between Jews and other Germans.
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