In September of 1940, Congress passed the ________ Act, inaugurating the first peacetime draft in American history.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Burke-Wadsworth
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The text authors state that "the transition from property qualifications to universal white manhood suffrage occurred . . . with surprisingly little dissension"
Why do you suppose that happened? Why wasn't there more resistance to this fundamental political innovation?
For the romantics, cultivating emotions, intuition, and the imagination was the path to
a. political success. b. reality and self-discovery. c. economic prosperity. d. religious comfort. e. intellectual achievement.
Herbert Hoover's victory in 1928 was
A) by such a large margin that the Republicans seemed on the verge of disappearing as a political party. B) by the slimmest possible margin in both the popular vote and the Electoral College. C) a smashing triumph, appearing to doom the Democrats to extinction. D) achieved only in the Electoral College, not the popular vote.
Perhaps a third of the Akkadian empire’s population were
a. merchants from Oman b. scribes c. Eblaites d. Hebrews e. slaves