Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided conviction on impeachment charges because
A. some Republicans feared that removal would set a bad precedent for using impeachment as a political weapon against the presidency.
B. only a minority of the Senate voted to convict.
C. Radical Republicans were beginning to support his policies.
D. of his earlier cooperative attitude toward Congress.
Answer: A
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a. new immigrants. b. industrial magnates. c. members of the middle class. d. unskilled laborers.
What assumption informs this political cartoon?
A) that all illegal aliens work in restaurant kitchens B) that the low wages of immigrants help the American economy C) that immigrants are ignorant of the workings of the U.S. government D) that the wealthy oppose both legal and illegal immigration E) that most Americans have no idea where illegal aliens actually work
The Missouri Compromise line of 1820:
A) negated the Kansas-Nebraska Act. B) was extended across the Mexican cession by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. C) was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. D) was left intact by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ________ emerged as the fundamental language for describing phenomena and for communicating and testing scientific hypotheses among educated scholars.
A. logic B. the Socratic method C. mathematics D. rhetoric