Parchman was a notorious __________ prison
a) Mississippi
b) Georgia
c) Alabama
d) Florida
Answer: a
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Colonial legislatures were often able to bend the governors to their will because
a. the governors often had a greater sense of loyalty to their colony than to the king. b. the governors were usually chosen by colonial legislatures and could be removed from office by the legislatures. c. the king generally held the views of colonial legislators in higher regard than those of the governors. d. colonial legislatures controlled taxes and expenditures that paid the governors' salaries. e. they regularly threatened to use the power of impeachment.
Political opponents of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton asserted that his major economic programs infringed on
a. constitutional guarantees of checks and balances of political power and authority among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the central government. b. national security. c. states' rights, explicitly reserved to them by pending ratification of the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution. d. free enterprise. e. federal authority.
Adam Smith argued in the Wealth of Nations that buyers and sellers in the capitalist market advance the welfare of all by
A. the invisible hand. B. laissez faire or "non-intervention" in the markets. C. attending to their own private interests. D. doing what is best for their own self-protection.
Thomas Jefferson was __________
A) not convinced that Indian cultures were still viable B) an opponent of western expansion C) a supporter of the gradual abolition of slavery D) a strong believer in the equality of men and women