Harding escaped personal condemnation for the scandals in his administration because he:
A) took aggressive action to prosecute wrongdoers.
B) died before most of the details became public.
C) resigned rather than face impeachment.
D) successfully pinned the blame on Vice President Coolidge.
Answer: B
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The following developments reflected the belief of Americans in the early 1800s that republican virtue was to be found in equality, at least among white men, EXCEPT
A) virtually all property qualifications for voting were eliminated. B) voting restrictions according to race and gender receded as notions of equality expanded to blacks and women. C) the number of white male voters increased from 20 percent to 70 to 80 percent in most states. D) all forms of authority, in government and in manners, became suspect.
Rule in India under the British Raj
A. brought even greater disorder and inefficiency in Indian governmental administration. B. gave all Indian peasants approximately fifty-five acres for each family to cultivate as its own, private property. C. established a new school system to educate the children of the Indian elite. D. quickly allowed native Indians to join the highest levels of the colonial administration. E. brought democracy to the subcontinent by 1892.
The Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act
a. was vetoed by President Wilson. b. increased tariffs substantially. c. increased the special privileges of industry. d. enacted an income tax.
Which trend developed during the reigns of the Julio-Claudian emperors?
a. Emperors took more and more actual ruling power away from the old Senate. b. All efforts to achieve bureaucratic organization of imperial government eventually failed. c. Emperors turned over more and more of the daily affairs of government to the Senate. d. The power of imperial military forces stationed in Rome declined. e. The Senate seized political power against the wishes of the weak emperors.