The 1896 election was unexciting and attracted little voter interest
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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Which group was the backbone of progressive reform?
A. The new middle class B. American industrialists C. The working class D. Ethnic minorities
Which of the political parties of the Gilded Age (Democratic, Republican, and Populist) is most attractive to you? Why? Which one is most objectionable to you? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
All of the following were true about the rise and fall of the notorious anticommunist crusader Senator Joseph McCarthy EXCEPT that
(A) Senator McCarthy first rose to national prominence by publicly charging that scores of known communists were working for the U.S. State Department. (B) Senator McCarthy outrageously charged that General George Marshall, a former secretary of state and World War II military hero, was part of a procommunist conspiracy to betray America. (C) as a result of Senator McCarthy's purges against Asian experts in the State Department, the department lost a number of Asian specialists who might have counseled a wiser course in Vietnam. (D) President Eisenhower, at an early stage during Senator McCarthy's political rise, publicly denounced McCarthy's slanderous and demagogic attacks against Americans loyally working for the U.S. government. (E) Senator McCarthy's fall from political power and influence was hastened when he foolishly and ineptly attempted to attack the U.S. Army during the televised Army-McCarthy hearings in the spring of 1954.
Which of the following contributed to the great industrial advances of the mid-nineteenth century?
A. the factory system. B. American inventors. C. the manufacturing of machine tools. D. All of these answers are correct. E. financing by affluent Northeast merchants.