The New Deal was the attempt by the Roosevelt administration to
a. end capitalism and free-market economic activity.
b. have the federal government participate more actively in the economy.
c. bring state-socialism to America.
d. incarcerate both capitalist and socialists extremists.
e. penalize the individuals in America who were profiteering from the financial downturn.
b
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John Adams's dismissive reply to his wife Abigail's entreaty to "Remember the Ladies" betrayed his distrust of
A) slavery. B) male authority. C) her judgment. D) the extension of democracy. E) legal reform.
In the 1850s, what did filibusters like William Walker do?
A) They talked unceasingly in Congress to prevent the passage of any antislavery legislation. B) They spoke on behalf of the Ostend Manifesto. C) They led bands of proslavery "ruffians" into Kansas to vote illegally for a proslavery state legislature. D) They conducted raids across the border between Canada and Oregon, in an attempt to retake "lost" territory. E) They organized unofficial military expeditions to Cuba and Central America.
Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought
A. suggested that people had considerable control over their own lives. B. emphasized the importance of religious faith. C. rejected most religious thought. D. challenged concepts such as "natural laws." E. had little influence on American intellectual thought.
By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence, in part because of
A. the development of a substantial colonial manufacturing industry. B. illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire. C. All these answers are correct. D. the abolishment of the British Navigation Acts. E. new access by non-British ships to the colonial carrying trade.