Which statement accurately describes a controversy surrounding the 2000 presidential election? A.
The Supreme Court decided by a single vote to stop the recount in Florida and give the election to George W. Bush.

B.
The Senate and the House of Representatives split over who had actually won the popular vote.

C.
George W. Bush's supporters argued that absentee ballots from white voters in Vermont had not been counted.

D.
Al Gore's supporters claimed that he had won the popular vote in Texas, but lost the electoral vote.

1. Why do some states have more representatives in the House?

1. Read the quote by Raphael Lemkin.Genocide is the criminal intent to destroy or to cripple permanently a human group. The acts are directed against groups as such, and individuals are selected for destruction only because they belong to these groups.

What is most significant about this quote by Raphael Lemkin?

Raphael Lemkin’s definition was the accepted version out of many.
Raphael Lemkin’s definition was not accepted until after the Holocaust.
Raphael Lemkin spoke these words on his death bed.
Raphael Lemkin spoke these words to the United Nations in 1945.

2. On December 9, 1948, in the shadow of the Holocaust and in no small part due to the tireless efforts of Lemkin himself, the United Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This convention establishes "genocide” as an international crime, which signatory nations “undertake to prevent and punish.” It defines genocide as:

Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Which of these terms is often used to describe Europe during the postclassical period?A. Eurasian period
B. Middle Ages
C. Islamic caliphate
D. Song dynasty

NOTICE! TRAVELLERS intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those waters and that travellers sailing in the war zone on the ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk.–IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY,
Washington, DC, April 22, 1915

What is the greatest risk Germany took by establishing this policy?

wasting its energy chasing down passenger ships
harming innocent people and making new enemies
angering the British by denying them war supplies
failing to prevent delivery of supplies by other routes

When were Austria's present borders created?A)after Napoleon was defeated
B)during the mid-1800s
C)when the Austro-Hungarian empire was formed
D)at the end of World War I

Which statement does not accurately describe a lasting result of the Crusades? A. Christians and Muslims blamed each other for the costly wars. B. Trade between Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean dried up. C. Knowledge flowed from the Islamic world into Western Europe. D. Tensions between Western and Eastern Christians increased.