In response to black power rhetoric, FBI director Herbert Hoover convinced President Lyndon Johnson to mobilize __________
A) the 101st Airborne Division against militant groups
B) the Central Intelligence Agency to engage in illegal domestic spying
C) COINTELPRO, a clandestine program designed to destroy subversive political organizations
D) the Poor People’s Campaign
Answer: C
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A) one-fifth of total government spending. B) one-quarter of total government spending. C) one-third of total government spending. D) one-half of all government spending. E) two-thirds of all government spending.
One of the "fundamental tenets of Jacksonian Democracy" was that
A) educated and virtuous people should be elected to office. B) long-term stability for government employees improved government services. C) expert knowledge was the key to a democratic government. D) ordinary Americans could do anything.
The Sandinistas were revolutionaries in ________
A) Nicaragua B) Guatemala C) Mexico D) Argentina
When the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus needed military assistance against the Seljuk Turks, he wrote to which person in the West?
a. the king of France b. the Holy Roman emperor c. the king of England d. the pope e. the grand prince of Kievan Rus