Thomas Jefferson commented, "If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go at all." Yet political parties did develop during the 1790s. Why were Federalists and Republicans suspicious of parties?
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The first plan for a permanent union of the states, sharply limiting what the Congress could do and reserving broad governing powers to the individual states, was the ________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Which of the following was true of the election of 1824?
A) All four candidates ran as Republicans. B) Andrew Jackson received a majority of the popular vote. C) Henry Clay won a majority of the electoral college vote. D) Congress selected Andrew Jackson as the new president.
Which of the following contributed to the decline of the Federalist Party?
a) Hartford Convention b) Embargo Act c) Louisiana Purchase d) Continental System
In the immediate aftermath of his first trip to Africa and the Middle East, Malcolm X called attention to
a. the need to link the African-American freedom struggle to international communism. b. the international character of the black rights movement. c. the color and racial diversity in the Muslim world. d. the indifference of the rest of the world to the travails of black Americans.