Compared to other forms of transportation in the early nineteenth century, railroads were all of the following EXCEPT
A) able to travel in all seasons. B) safer.
C) faster. D) cheaper.
B
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What did Lyndon B. Johnson predict would happen as a result of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
a) The South would shift from being a Democratic to a Republican base of support. b) The South would shift from being a Republican to a Democratic base of support. c) The influence of third-party candidates in presidential elections would decline. d) The influence of third-party candidates in presidential elections would increase.
Early romantics tended to be __________.
A. politically conservative B. agnostic C. believers in popular democracy D. enchanted with growing cities
In Darkness at Noon, the fictional Rubashov
a. is an anti-Communist peasant who reflects on the irony that peasants were freed from serfdom by the tsar but enserfed again by the Bolsheviks. b. is an example of the new Soviet man purged of materialism and critical thinking. c. is an Old Bolshevik who comes to see the atrocities committed by the party in the name of the people but, nonetheless, sacrifices himself for the cause by admitting to bogus charges of committing political crimes. d. is actually a cleric in disguise who exemplifies the essential religious character of Communism. e. finally abandons Communism and embraces liberalism after witnessing Communism's atrocities.
One major inspiration for Reagan's economic approach was:
a. Henry Clay's American System b. the Republican tax-reduction program of the 1920s c. Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism d. the New Deal e. Eisenhower's "modern Republicanism"