How did Congress attempt to reassert its power over foreign policy in the 1970s?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. The double shock of defeat in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal caused many in Congress to rethink congressional deference to the executive branch in foreign policy matters.
2. Congress passed the War Powers Act in 1973 to limit the president's capacity to wage undeclared wars.
3. With encouragement from voters and journalists, Congress began to investigate the covert side of American foreign policy.
4. Investigations uncovered illegal domestic espionage and CIA involvement in assassination attempts against foreign leaders.
5. Many citizens decried what their government had done in their name and without their knowledge.
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Most of the sugar plantations in Hawai'i were owned by
A) ?Hawaiians. B) ?Americans. C) ?the British. D) ?the Chinese. E) ?the Japanese.
When Roosevelt, with an improved economy, cut federal spending and tightened credit in 1937:
A) the economy reach nearly full recovery. B) a sharp recession occurred. C) Democrats made dramatic gains in the 1938 elections. D) there was little impact on the economy.
Name 2 differences between the Massachusetts and Virginia colonies.
What will be an ideal response?
Who were the core supporters of the new Whig Party that fully emerged in the 1830s?
A) National Republicans who opposed the Adams-Clay American System and opposed Jacksonian Democrats in the 1828 election and the 1830s.
B) National Republicans who supported the Adams-Clay American System and politically opposed Jacksonian Democrats in 1828 and the 1830s.
C) Jacksonian Democrats who supported Andrew Jackson and the Democrats in 1828, but who fell out with the Democratic Party in the 1830s because of the party's opposition of the Adams-Clay American System.
D) National Republicans who opposed the Adams-Clay American System and opposed the party's antislavery position.