Robert C. Weaver used his training as an economist to __________
A) shape government policy
B) build a large business
C) predict the Great Depression
D) plan for the colonization of Africa
Answer: A
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In the 1848 presidential election, the Democratic and Whig parties
a. were seriously challenged by the Free Soil party. b. each nominated slaveholders for the presidency. c. remained silent on the issue of slavery. d. abandoned the tactic of nominating military leaders. e. were divided on the issue of admitting California as a free state.
The main purpose of the Japanese attack upon the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor was to
A) destroy the entire United States navy at once. B) act as a spearhead for the invasion of the mainland United States. C) temporarily impede America's ability to wage war against the Japanese in the Pacific. D) impress the United States with its ability to strike anywhere at will and terrify Americans into opposing Asian intervention. E) cajole the United States into lifting its oil embargo.
John D. Rockefeller's horizontal combination was so successful that he controlled this percentage of the nation's oil refining by 1882
A) 50 percent
B) 75 percent
C) 80 percent
D) over 90 percent
During its first quarter-century as a nation, the major foreign policy problem facing the United States was
a. the rivalry and warfare between France and Britain. b. the French and Spanish control of Louisiana and New Orleans. c. the continued threat from the British in Canada. d. the attacks on American shipping by the North African Barbary states. e. the threat of international revolution spreading from France.