Why was there an uproar surrounding the formation of the Society of the Cincinnati?
a. The public feared that it would begin a hereditary peerage in America.
b. Many women were angry because membership was exclusively male.
c. Religious leaders felt the society was pagan in its rituals.
d. Parents feared allowing young men and women to meet without chaperones.
e. Southerners questioned the society's strong antislavery stance.
A
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Treasury Secretary Hamilton successfully argued to President Washington that the Bank of the United States was constitutional because
A) the Tenth Amendment implicitly authorized the creation of a federal bank. B) the "necessary and proper" clause in Article One of the Constitution gave Congress the authority to do everything required for the federal government in order to carry out its taxation and borrowing powers. C) a federal bank was expressly authorized in Article One of the Constitution. D) a federal bank had been envisioned by many of the farmers of the Constitution including Madison.
In the early nineteenth century, sentimental novels outsold
a. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. b. Herman Melville' s Moby Dick. c. Henry David Thoreau's Walden. d. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlett Letter. e. all of these choices
Members of the planter aristocracy
a. focused on cultural gentility rather than politics. b. dominated society and politics in the South. c. provided democratic rule in the South. d. promoted tax-supported public education. e. kept up with developments in modern thought.
St. Augustine tried to harmonize Christianity with Greek and Roman philosophical traditions.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)