To help corporations, the courts ingeniously interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed to protect the rights of ex-slaves, so as to
a. help freedmen to work in factories.
b. incorporate big businesses.
c. allow the captains of industry to avoid paying taxes.
d. avoid corporate regulation by the states.
e. protect the civil rights of business people.
d
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How did the Neutrality Act of 1935 treat the sale of munitions?
A) It banned their sale to all countries except when the president should proclaim that a state of war existed. B) It limited their sale to only Great Britain and France, because they had repaid their loans from the Great War. C) It approved of their sale to those nations "protected" by the Monroe Doctrine. D) It forbade their sale to all belligerents whenever the president should proclaim that a state of war existed.
In terms of the slave trade, the sultan of Zanzibar most closely followed the model of ________
A) Barbados B) Dahomey C) Angola D) Kongo
Rome became a republic when
a. measures passed by the Tribal Assembly had the force of law. b. the plebeians won the right to elect Tribunes. c. the dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated. d. the patricians overthrew the Etruscan king. e. Roman peasants settled on the seven hills.
Most American scientists accept the theory that humans migrated to North America following large mammals across the Bering Strait. Most American Indian peoples
a. accept this theory as the only explanation for their presence here. b. believe that they have always lived in their homelands because traditional stories place them squarely in the world created for them by the gods. c. point to their migration stories from the north as supporting the Bering Strait theory. d. have no stories of creation.