The Democrats struggled in the presidential election of 1860 after
A) President Buchanan refused to support the nominee.
B) the party split into sectional factions.
C) William Seward supported Abraham Lincoln.
D) the Know-Nothings defected from the party.
E) Stephen A. Douglas chose not to run for president.
B
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The purpose of Stalin's Cominform group was to:
A. improve communications among communist nation-states. B. increase communications with noncommunist governments. C. devise a master plan for generation of Soviet propaganda. D. spread communism throughout the world. E. develop better control over the dissemination of information in the Communist world.
National party conventions were more important in the late nineteenth century than today because
a. they provided a rare opportunity for state and municipal politicians to meet. b. primary elections were hopelessly corrupt. c. money was raised by selling exclusive coverage rights to the press. d. the states chose the party's presidential candidates. e. none of these choices.
Which was not a consequence of McCarthyism?
a) It succeeded in rooting out numerous Communists from the federal government. b) It created an atmosphere of suspicion and fear of nonconformity. c) It led to many people being "blacklisted" and subsequently unable to get work. d) Loyalty oaths for university faculties were introduced.
The belief that kings were established by God was stated in the
What will be an ideal response?