The Alien and Sedition Acts authorized using federal courts and the powers of the presidency to __________.
a. suppress the Federalists
b. curtail immigration
c. silence the Republicans
d. investigate suspected spies
c. silence the Republicans
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Kotow was
a. A Chinese Confucian scholar b. The practice of having foreign officials prostrate before the Emperor c. A Shaolin Buddhist monk d. The Mandarin term for opium e. The Cantonese term for a foreigner
Why did many middle-class parents object to rock-and-roll?
A) They linked rock-and-roll with sex and violence. B) Many rock-and-roll singers such as Elvis Presley were avowed communist sympathizers. C) They feared that the African-American rhythm-and-blues inspiration for rock-and-roll would lead to integration and intermarriage. D) Rock-and-roll was linked with a widespread drug culture. E) all of these choices
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
a. a Republican commitment to protect black civil rights in the South. b. the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the end of Reconstruction. c. the election of a Democrat to the presidency in exchange for the maintenance of the monetary gold standard. d. an end to Indian warfare and the creation of the reservation system. e. a plan to build the first transcontinental railroad and admit new western states to the Union.
The Twenty Negro Law:
a. offered twenty slaves for every captured confederate soldier. b. ordered the execution of twenty slaves for every Confederate soldier killed in battle. c. allowed an elite group of 20 former slaves to join the Confederate army. d. exempted planters owning more than twenty slaves from military service.