Who were the Dixiecrats?
A) They were states' rights segregationists who hoped to deny Truman's re-election and preserve their "way of life."
B) They bolted the Democratic party and supported Thomas Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.
C) They formed the core of President Truman's support in the solid South during the 1948 election.
D) They were Northerners who moved to the south in the postwar years to build new industries and take advantage of cheap labor.
E) They were the leftwing Democrats who joined with communists to launch a new Progressive Party in 1948.
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The presidents in the 1920s reflected the dominance of __________ in politics.
a) conservatism b) radicalism c) liberalism d) Progressivism
Ignorant of Hinduism when he arrived in India, Vasco da Gama mistook the Indian religion for:
a. The surviving remnants of the “Ten Lost Tribes” of Israel. b. A variant of Islam that was practiced in Safavid Persia. c. A form of proto-Christianity that had been spread by St. Thomas, Jesus's disciple. d. The Christianity of “Prester John.”
William Pitt was able to convince the colonies to fight in the Seven Years' War by
a. convincing Native-American tribes to attack colonial settlements in the Ohio Valley b. threatening military reprisals by the British army c. threatening to make the colonists fight the French by themselves d. putting the recruiting of troops in the colonies totally in the hands of the colonies themselves e. paying colonial soldiers generous bonuses to fight against the French
What prompted the Embargo of 1807?
a. The British hadn't abandoned their posts in the Northwest Territory as required by Jay's Treaty. b. The British supplied arms to Indian insurgents. c. British soldiers burned the U.S. capitol. d. The British navy captured American ships on the high seas and impressed their sailors into service for the British.