Which of the following is true concerning the Alien and Sedition Acts?
a. Many states joined Kentucky and Virginia in opposing them.
b. The Sedition Act led to the prosecution of fourteen Federalists.
c. They were passed by Congress at the instigation of John Adams.
d. President Adams never used the powers granted under the Alien Act.
e. none of these choices.
d
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Many Americans accepted which of the following beliefs in the 1950s? a. The diversity within American society means that tension and conflict are inevitable in the United States. b. Citizens in a mass democracy must always harbor a healthy distrust of their elected officials and questiontheir decisions
c. Americans must work to bring about the moral regeneration of American society. d. As the United States struggles against the Soviet Union for the future of the world, critics of America aresuspect and perhaps even unpatriotic.
Duarte Coelho, one of Brazil's most successful donatories,
A) donated large sums of money to the Catholic Church. B) received donations to the Crown from quitrents paid by loyal Brazilian landlords. C) governed the captaincy of Pernambuco and profited handsomely from its sugar industry. D) defeated the Dutch challenge to Portuguese sovereignty in Brazil and reconquered Palmares.
In __________, all children born to enslaved mothers after March 1, 1784, became free at age 25
A) New Hampshire B) Connecticut C) New Jersey D) Massachusetts
Similarities between both Muslim and Jewish populations include all of the following except ______________.
A. circumcision B. a ban on the consumption of pork C. a ban on drinking alcohol D. fear of idolatry E. polygamy