The first bill ever passed over a presidential veto was the __________
A) Wade-Davis Bill
B) Freedmen's Bureau extension bill
C) Civil Rights Act of 1866
D) Tenure of Office Act
E) First Reconstruction Act
Answer: C
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Both prohibition and ending prostitution were efforts by the Progressive reformers to control:
A) state politicians who obstructed progressive reform. B) city bosses and city machines. C) the growing middle class. D) big city immigrants with alien cultures.
Many European peasants of the “New Immigration” were encouraged to emigrate from Europe because
a. cheap American grain undersold the grain they grew even at home. b. of a declining standard of living at home. c. of large landowners’ efforts in Europe to consolidate lands and modernize production. d. of the economic opportunity in America. e. all of these choices.
In 1932, the Hoover administration, in response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria,
A. called for Japanese recognition of the Open Door policy. B. issued warnings to the Japanese government. C. sent financial aid to Chiang Kai-shek's government in China. D. imposed economic sanctions against Japan. E. sent Americans to Manchuria to train Chinese pilots.
Rutherford B. Hayes saw that the best way to prevent conflicts such as the Great Railway Strike of 1877 was from all of the following actions, EXCEPT
a. "intervention by government with an iron fist." b. "education of the strikers." c. "judicious control of the capitalists." d. "remove the distress which afflicts laborers."