Jackson's most powerful weapon against the Bank of the United States was the
A) power to remove Bank officers.
B) ability to withdraw government revenues from the Bank.
C) Specie Circular, which required the Bank to redeem its notes in gold.
D) loyal backing of prominent National Republicans such as Daniel Webster.
B
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 involved __________
a. the criteria that no more slave states could be created south of the northern boundary of Missouri b. Missouri being admitted as a slave state on condition that slavery be phased out over a period of time c. Maine splitting off from Massachusetts and being admitted as a free state d. northern and southern congressmen splitting along partisan lines on the issue e. adroit political maneuvering by John Calhoun, who got the compromise through the Senate
Why did the Monroe Doctrine make little impression on European powers?
A) They were too occupied with losing their colonial power in the Americas to care about trade embargoes in the United States. B) They didn’t see the U.S. as a significant enough military power to feel threatened about their support of Latin American independence. C) Europe, especially Britain, couldn’t predict how powerful an influence the U.S. would have on independent markets in Latin America. D) Communication was so poor that the European powers didn’t receive news of the Monroe Doctrine until after they had given up Latin America. E) Maps were so inaccurate that European powers didn’t have a sense of how close the United States was to much of Latin America.
All of the following have been used to keep African Americans from voting EXCEPT
a. poll taxes. b. literacy tests. c. federal court orders. d. threats and social pressures.
In 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
a. became the first woman elected chief executive of a country on the African continent. b. was executed for violation of Shari'a law. c. gained international notoriety for exposing corruption in the United Nation. d. won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her book Devil on the Cross. e. relinquished power to Nelson Mandela ending Apartheid in South Africa.