Ronald Reagan's economic plan included all of the following facets EXCEPT
a. providing less government regulation of big businesses.
b. enforcing strict protection of natural environments.
c. reducing taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
d. encouraging wider participation in the stock market.
ANS: b
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The Fifth Pan-African Congress of 1945
A) advocated non-violence as the path to independence in Africa. B) met in Kenya. C) advocated the use of any means necessary to achieve freedom. D) was attended only by Africans. E) sought allies against European imperialism.
President Nixon looked presidential during his 1972 victory over Democrat George McGovern. Which was not a major problem for McGovern?
a) He switched vice-presidential candidates, ending up with Missouri's Thomas Eagleton. b) He seemed not to understand his own welfare reform program. c) He proved to be a mediocre campaigner. d) The Democratic convention rules left traditional party loyalists feeling left out.
In his pivotal work The Social Contract, Rousseau posed what political argument?
a. Absolutism was justified in certain conditions. b. The best system of government was a constitutional monarchy. c. Democracy was the best form of government because it relied on the general will. d. Each society had different needs determined by their individual and economic history. e. The oppressed worker would soon rise up and overthrow his feudal overlords.
Which action best illustrates the policy of isolationism followed by the United States before it entered World War II?
A. signing of a collective security pact with Latin American nations B. passage of neutrality legislation forbidding arms sales to warring nations C. embargo on the sale of gasoline and steel to Japan D. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's exchange of American destroyers for British naval and air bases