Which of the following did the Whigs support?
a) commercial and industrial capitalism
b) strict construction of the Constitution
c) supremacy of states’ rights
d) protection of individual freedoms
a) commercial and industrial capitalism
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Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalist government lost the Chinese civil war to the communists and Mao Zedong mainly because
a. their corruption and incompetence lost the support and confidence of the Chinese people. b. the United States failed to give Jiang enough aid. c. they controlled only the countryside while Mao Zedong seized the cities. d. American communists inside the Truman administration undermined Jiang's efforts. e. the communists were closer to the Confucian values of traditional Chinese culture.
The Intolerable Acts did all of the following EXCEPT ________
A. raise the tax on tea B. close the port of Boston C. allow troops to be quartered in private homes D. remove the trials of royal customs officials to England E. reorganize the government of Massachusetts
Pursuing pleasure rationally, and not only in a physical or hedonistic sense, as the only true good, was a precept of
a. Epicureanism. b. Stoicism. c. Hellenism. d. Euphemism. e. Zoroastrianism.
The goal of early utopian socialists was (to) a. overthrow the monopolization of private property
b. assert equality for all by eliminating social classes. c. replace competition for cooperation within industry. d. create equal opportunities for all workers to maintain a basic standard of living. e. require the state to provide or subsidize basic necessities.