President Eisenhower was embarrassed when he supported Dixon-Yates, a private company, in a bid to construct a government atomic energy generating facility, instead of the
a. TVA.
b. Bonneville Power Authority.
c. city of Memphis.
d. REA.
e. SEC.
ANS: A
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Sectionalism was stimulated by the
a. American System. b. death of the Federalist party. c. Panic of 1819. d. Tallmadge Amendment. e. Missouri Compromise.
The domestic program outlined by President Madison in 1815
A. recommended constitutional amendments that would have destroyed the system of checks and balances. B. represented a novel definition of the role of the federal government. C. in many respects embraced Federalist ideas. D. in most respects indicated the triumph of the ideas associated with Jeffersonian Republicanism.
What would be the most accurate description of the Domesday Book?
A) It was a definitive law code. B) It served as a guide to religious prayer. C) It was a royal census to collect taxes. D) It was a farmers' guide. E) It provided a history of the Crusades.
When it came to the Revolution, it could be said that the American colonists
a. were perpetually hostile to authority. b. believed that revolution was a necessary step in human progress. c. based their revolt on working class hostility to British aristocracy. d. revolted against the cultural domination of the mother country. e. were reluctant revolutionaries.