Thomas Jefferson once observed that "the best school of political liberty the world ever saw" was the
a. College of William and Mary.
b. Virginia House of Burgesses.
c. New England town meeting.
d. Chesapeake plantation system.
e. English parliament.
c
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Why are Hiawatha and Deganawidah significant to Iroquois culture?
A) ?They are men from Iroquois oral history who united five separate tribes in the Iroquois Confederation. B) ?They were brothers who united the Iroquois around 1500. C) ?They were faith healers who, through prayer, saved the Iroquois from the ravages of small pox. D) ?They were Iroquois holy men who argued that the Iroquois nation could only be great if it eliminated all non-Iroquois. E) As the gods of the sun and the forest, they were the most important of the Iroquois gods.
Puerto Ricans experienced which of the following when they migrated to the United States from Puerto Rico in the 1950s?
A) Deportation as "undocumented aliens" B) Family friction and a reversal in traditional sex roles C) A middle-class lifestyle in the barrio D) Downward social mobility from middle class respectability to grinding poverty E) All of these choices
The _____ led to the trial and conviction of _____
a. Sedition Act; ten Jeffersonian newspaper editors b. Alien Laws; hundreds of recent immigrants c. Sedition Act; ten Federalist newspaper editors d. Alien Laws; Matthew Lyon e. Sedition Acts; Citizen Genêt
When Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated on March 4, 1933, he famously proclaimed,
a. "I pledge you, I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people.". b. "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.". c. "Let every man be a king.". d. "I welcome the hatred of the economic royalists who hide behind the flag and the Constitution.". e. "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.".