King used a financial metaphor to refer to the lack of compliance with the civil rights that the Declaration of Independence and the Reconstruction Amendments to the US Constitution (14th and 15th) included for all US citizens, without discrimination in terms of race.
King aimed to express that the US still owed, to its black citizens, the defaulted "promissory note" that Martin Luther King Jr. had mentioned and demanded in his remarkable "I have a Dream" speech, delivered in 1963. Instead of guaranteeing the promised rights of life, of freedom, and of the pursuit of happiness, black people had received a black check, one with no funds on it and were still waiting for the payment of such debt.
Social stratification refers to a system which people in a given community are divided into layers according to their relative property, power, and prestige. Great Britain has a class system that is divided into a class system that is divided into lower, middle and upper classes of which only 1% of the population falls under the upper class of the most powerful and highly educated, while the rest is evenly divided into middle and lower (working) class.
The former Soviet Union mainly focuses on socialism with no division of social classes, through this citizens contribute their labour to the common good and receive according to their needs.
Answer: B. The storming of the Bastille
Explanation: In the book, "A Human Odyssey volume 2" the text states "As the two sides confronted each other, a musket shot rang out. No one knows who fired it. Then the cannons roared." Sounds pretty familiar. The storming of the Bastille was the beginning of the French Revolution.
B promoting religious freedom
India became independent from Britain in the 1950's. Till then there was a Governor General at the head and he was a Britisher. Lord Mount Batten was the last British Governor general in India. India celebrates its independence day on 15 August and its Republic Day on 26th January every year. Rajaji was the last person and the only Indian to hold the post of Governor General.
