Whose work represented the culmination of the attack on Ptolemaic-Aristotelian cosmology?
a. Copernicus
b. Newton
c. Kepler
d. Galileo
e. Bacon
b
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Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president
a. Ulysses S. Grant b. Andrew Johnson c. George B. McClellan d. Rutherford B. Hayes e. Jefferson Davis
George W. Bush clearly won the popular vote in the election of 2000, but the electoral vote remained in dispute.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
In Jacksonian America a typical member of the Whig party would NOT have been _______.
1) middling farmers. 2) wealthy businessmen. 3) large Southern planters. 4) small farmers.
The razor-thin election of 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore was finally resolved when
a. the U.S. Supreme Court ended further vote recounts in Florida, giving Bush the electoral vote victory. b. Al Gore conceded that Bush had won a majority in Florida and should therefore be declared the winner. c. the Florida State Supreme Court determined that Bush had won the state by a few hundred votes. d. Congress settled the issue by accepting Bush's Florida electors rather than Gore's. e. Bush agreed to appoint Democrats to the cabinet and govern as a "compassionate conservative" if Gore would drop his electoral challenge.