Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist party in their convention of 1892?
a. Government ownership of the railroads, telephone, and telegraph
b. Free and unlimited coinage of silver in the ratio of 16 to 1
c. The adoption of the initiative petition and the referendum
d. Government guarantees of parity prices for farmers
e. Immigration restrictions
d
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The main issue addressed by the 15th Amendment was
a. housing. b. lynching. c. segregation. d. civil rights. e. voting.
The concentration of capital for investment in large-scale enterprises in the early nineteenth century was promoted by the
a. wider acceptance of the principle of limited liability. b. introduction of state corporate tax laws. c. legalization of labor unions. d. passage of state free incorporation laws. e. lowering of the capital gains tax.
What problem did the British face with China's "Canton system"?
a. Britain couldn't meet China's demand for goods. b. China bought few British goods. c. China wanted British rule in Canton to facilitate trade. d. the British wanted to go to Canton only for trade. e. a gold deposit was required as goodwill collateral.
After the Tiananmen Square incident, the Communist government
a. ordered Marxist-Leninist ideology to be removed from school curriculums. b. demanded that Marxist-Leninist ideology be taught in schools. c. allowed dissidents within the intellectual communist society to publically criticize Marxist-Leninist practices as long as they did so peacefully. d. restricted Marxist-Leninist teaching to only the university level, as the demonstrators had mostly been university students. e. authorized the "fifth modernization" so long as the voters did not question the Marxist-Leninist ideology.