The American Founders created the Electoral College because they
a. Distrusted total popular sovereignty after the French Revolution
b. Wanted to make sure that the popular vote winner never won the White House
c. Wanted to ensure slaves could not vote
d. Wanted to ensure women could not vote
e. Hoped that the electors would eventually restore the monarchy
a
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The first outbreak of civil unrest in the revolutions of 1848 was the
a. forced abdication of Louis Philippe in France. b. demand for a constitution and liberal government in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. c. clash between citizens and soldiers in Berlin. d. demand for unification and a constituent assembly in Germany. e. vacation of the imperial palace by the Habsburgs in Vienna.
Republicans swept the congressional elections of 1946 to control both houses of Congress for the first time since the 1920s.
a. true b. false
The "march to the sea" was best known for
A) its destruction of only the large plantations. B) freeing all the slaves in the South. C) its total destruction of all property. D) releasing Union prisoners.