Give an example of neocolonialism in a fictitious country.
What will be an ideal response?
Amal was a ruler in an oil-rich country. The United States government came in and helped him obtain power in exchange for privileged oil trading rights. This angered his people, so he had to rely on the United States to keep him in power, which also made him indebted to the United States and obligated to give them special access to his country’s oil.
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Guarantees of individual rights are
a. based solely on the Bill of Rights. b. often more restrictive in state constitutions than in the U.S. Constitution. c. being extended by activist states in their constitutions. d. being struck from revisions of state constitutions as unnecessarily wordy.
Like the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Fifteenth Amendment was an outgrowth of
a. the Civil War. b. the Industrial Revolution. c. Shays' Rebellion. d. the Spanish-American War.
In 1932, __________ was elected president, having promised a "New Deal" to Americans who had lost their jobs, their homes, and their savings in the Great Depression
A) Dwight Eisenhower B) Herbert Hoover C) Franklin Roosevelt D) Calvin Coolidge E) Theodore Roosevelt
As young people begin to pay income or property taxes, they tend to __________
a. support a lower minimum age for voting b. understand the political process in a more abstract way c. vote for more liberal candidates d. become more interested in elections