What Chair of the Federal Reserve was blamed for irresponsible lending practices and poor oversight of financial institutions after the onset of the financial crisis of 2008?
a. Alan Greenspan
b. Ben Bernanke
c. Paul Volcker
d. Janet Yellen
a. Alan Greenspan
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Modern national party conventions serve what end?
a. They assemble delegates who will be assessed for their future political potential. b. They mobilize support for the nominee who has essentially already been selected. c. They deliberate on the party's choices for presidential and vice presidential nominees. d. They hold elections to determine new party leaders.
During the Middle Ages, many people gathered to cities to seek protection from barbarians
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
________ specifically prohibits both the federal government and the state governments from granting any title of nobility upon its citizens
A) The Bill of Rights B) The Emancipation Proclamation C) Article I of the Constitution D) The Declaration of Independence E) The sovereignty clause of Article II of the Constitution
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. In every election, one of the parties benefits from the state of the nation’s economy and voters’ judgments about the nation’s well-being. 2. The United States replaced its republican government with a democratic one. 3. Many Americans today do not feel faithfully represented even though the United States holds more elections for public offices than any other nation in the world. 4. The argument for limiting suffrage boiled down to this: Only the independent and virtuous were fit to govern, and the best evidence of independence and virtue was being a property-holding, White, Protestant male. 5. If there is no real chance that a vote will be decisive, it is of no consequence whether the vote is right or wrong. Ignorance, like abstention from voting, is rational.