Early in his presidency, Jimmy Carter gave priority attention to
A. federal spending and Soviet-American relations.
B. energy and the economy.
C. reform of government and education.
D. passing civil rights legislation.
E. conservation and the environment.
B
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At one time or another all of the following were objectives of the French effort in North America, EXCEPT
A. establishing a permanent settlement. B. converting the Indians to Catholicism. C. the quest for profits through the fur trade. D. finding a place to resettle dissident French Protestants.
Dreadnoughts were designed primarily to
A) be quick and agile and slip through an enemy blockade. B) spy on one's enemies. C) protect merchant shipping and conduct high-seas battles. D) launch underwater attacks with unmanned torpedoes. E) All these answers are correct.
The Massachusetts Board of Education's full-time paid secretary Horace Mann spent his state government career advocating for all of the following EXCEPT
A) tighter state standards for education in the public schools. B) more money for schools and teacher salaries from increased taxes. C) state systems of education and better-educated teachers. D) private college-sponsored teacher preparation schools called "normal schools" that offered privately funded preparation to any young woman or man who wanted to be a teacher.
Which of the following statements best characterizes the totalitarian state in the 1930s?
A. It was democratic and championed individualism and democratic freedoms. B. It was an all-compassing, authoritarian dictatorship that subordinated individual needs, and employed police power and mass propaganda to achieve total control. C. It limited its authoritarian dictates to the political and economic aspects of the state's affairs, in an effort to have freer social and cultural choices serve as means of placating the masses. D. It wanted the masses to keep quiet and not obstruct state policy. E. It depended upon the appeasement policies of the Eastern democracies.