Schuyler Colfax, Grant's vice president,
A. was fired by Grant for incompetence.
B. was involved in a stock-fixing scandal.
C. was assassinated by a disgruntled former plantation owner.
D. opposed almost every one of Grant's policies.
E. None of these answers is correct.
Answer: B
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In response to the breakout of the civil war in Spain, the U.S. government joined with Britain and France in an agreement to
A. use the conflict as a means of establishing military positions in Spain. B. offer help to whichever side would repudiate any diplomatic contact with Hitler's regime. C. support Franco's regime. D. offer no help to either side. E. support the republican side.
Northern Democrats leveled which of the following charges against the Republican government during the war years?
A. The Republicans are too concerned with abiding by the Constitution to prosecute the war successfully. B. The Republicans are not willing to extend government aid to Northern business interests. C. Republican policies extend aid to farmers but ignore the plight of urban laborers. D. Republican policies are designed to flood the North with blacks.
Lincoln's initial declaration that the North fought only to preserve the Union and not to abolish slavery
a. came as a disappointment to most northerners. b. was designed essentially to keep the Border States in the Union. c. was understood as politically necessary by most abolitionists. d. contradicted the campaign promises of the Republican party. e. cost him support in the "Butternut region" of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
How did imperialism contribute to the widening of World War I?
What will be an ideal response?