Which of the following statements is NOT true of the election of 1856?
A) The Kansas-Nebraska Act had divided for the Democratic Party.
B) James Buchanan was the compromise Democratic candidate.
C) The Republicans could claim "victorious defeat."
D) A sectional candidate had triumphed for the first time.
Answer: D
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Which of the following statements represents the conception of a parliamentary power held in the 1760s by American colonists?
a. Parliment had limited powers of legislation that included authority to regulate imperial trade but excluded the authority to tax colonists b. Parliment represented all citizens of the empire and therefore had the authority to legislate on all matters relevant to American colonists c. Parliment included no Americans among its members and therefore had no authority to interfere with colonial trade d. Since Parliment was made up of corrupt politicians who represented only large landholders, Parliamentary law had no authority in the North American colonies e. Because Parliment created the colonies, the colonial assemblies possessed no more power than Parliament permitted them.
Which of the following compared nineteenth-century society to a stagecoach in which the favored few rode in comfort while the masses pulled them along life's route?
A) Henry Demarest Lloyd B) Andrew Carnegie C) Edward Bellamy D) Henry George
The Kushite god Apedemak, whose importance is seen in the number of temples dedicated to him, was
a. Egyptian in origin. b. a warrior god with an elephant's head. c. worshipped, by the third century B.C.E., to the exclusion of all other gods. d. None of these answers are correct.
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guaranteed a substantial measure of public control over the American banking and currency system through the great authority given to
a. the secretary of the treasury. b. the House and the Senate. c. banking shareholders. d. regional Federal Reserve banks. e. the presidentially appointed Federal Reserve Board.