Compare and contrast the Federalist and Jeffersonian Republican parties
Specifically, what can you say about each party's assumptions about human nature, the nature of government, the relationship of government to the economy, and its view of America's future?
Federalists believed humans were essentially self-interested; Republicans saw people as capable of virtuous self-sacrifice. Federalists insisted on strong centralized government; Republicans on decentralized authority and states' rights. Federalists were mercantilists; Republicans were laissez-faire free traders who championed individual economic opportunity. Federalists saw America as a strong commercial and manufacturing nation dealing in the Atlantic world; Republicans saw America as a yeoman farmer republic moving West to its future.
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What may well have provided John F. Kennedy's margin of victory over Richard Nixon in the 1960 Presidential Election was Kennedy's
A) strong anticommunist position. B) greater experience in the conduct of foreign policy. C) performance in the campaign's televised debates. D) view of the situation in Vietnam.
What tied the United States to the Allies even before it entered the war in 1917?
A) ?? significant economic and cultural ties. B) ?? an alliance with the French guaranteeing French colonial possessions. C) ?? an agreement with the British exchanging bases for destroyers. D) ?? a pledge to support only democracies in wartime. E) ?? membership in the League of Nations.
Which of the following groups built an empire base on an all-consuming concern for war and the use of terror?
a. Assyrians b. Canaanites c. Medes d. Neo-Babylonian (Chaldeans) e. Persians
How did the differing attitudes of the Cherokee nation and the Seminole nation affect their treatment by white Americans?
a. The Seminole nation successfully resisted occupation of their lands by the whites. b. The Cherokee nation became "civilized" and became part of American society. c. The Cherokee were allowed to keep their lands and pursue their way of life. d. The treatment they received was about the same, since the eventual aim of white Americans was the conquest of all Indians.