A fundamental sentiment of the Whig party was that
a. Congress, not the president, should take the lead in government.
b. Congress should be subordinate to the president.
c. Congress and the president should be exactly equal in power.
d. the federal government should be subordinate to the states.
e. none of these choices.
ANS: A
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The extension of the right to vote to poor white men could have posed a threat to the power of the dominant elite. How did the elite reduce that threat?
A. They threatened to raise taxes if poor whites voted against them. B. They made free land, or homesteads, available to poor whites in most states. C. They attempted to create solidarity among whites by emphasizing racial divisions between blacks and whites. D. They supported public education in the belief that an educated electorate would keep the "better sort" in power.
What events were part of the constitutional crisis England faced in the seventeenth century?
a. the trial and execution of Charles I b. a Puritan republic headed by Oliver Cromwell c. the restoration of the Stuart dynasty d. the final establishment of parliamentary government and the rule of law e. all of the above
In the fall of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. and SCLC changed direction and announced the ________, an effort that they hoped would dramatize the economic problem of the poor
A) Poor People's Campaign
B) COINTELPRO
C) Memphis Sanitation Workers strike
D) Congress of Racial Equality
One reason for the persistence of slavery in the South was that:
A) a child born of a slave was legally a slave. B) the international slave trade grew rapidly after 1808. C) free blacks were seized and enslaved. D) Indian slaves replaced black slaves after 1808.