In the 1920s, Republican tariff policies
A) damaged the economy by depressing foreign trade.
B) made it easier for foreign nations to pay off their debts to the United States.
C) failed to protect American industry from foreign competition.
D) had little impact on the health of the national economy.
A
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Which of the following is true of advocates of the "common school" movement?
A. They advocated teacher training and a lengthening of the school year. B. They proposed that the state should assume responsibility for teaching lower-class children, but that upper- and middle-class children should be educated at home or in private institutions. C. They advocated the building of state-supported technical and vocational schools. D. They proposed that institutions of higher learning should be free to all who wanted to attend.
A prominent figure in promoting the New South economy was
A) Catholic priest Rev. Abram Ryan. B) Confederate General Robert E. Lee. C) newspaper editor Henry Grady. D) African American activist Frederick Douglass. E) Wall Street titan Jay Gould.
Who were the core supporters of the new Whig Party that fully emerged in the 1830s?
A) National Republicans who opposed the Adams-Clay American System and opposed Jacksonian Democrats in the 1828 election and the 1830s.
B) National Republicans who supported the Adams-Clay American System and politically opposed Jacksonian Democrats in 1828 and the 1830s.
C) Jacksonian Democrats who supported Andrew Jackson and the Democrats in 1828, but who fell out with the Democratic Party in the 1830s because of the party's opposition of the Adams-Clay American System.
D) National Republicans who opposed the Adams-Clay American System and opposed the party's antislavery position.
The Central Intelligence Agency was created in
A) ?1947. B) ?1950. C) ?1952. D) ?1955. E) ?1957.