What did advocates claim was essential to the success of a republican form of government?
a. A powerful central government
b. The absence of a permanent military establishment
c. A strong aristocratic tradition
d. The right of every citizen to vote
e. The willingness of all citizens to subordinate their private interests to the common good
e
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For Jefferson, one of the most important reasons for the Louisiana Purchase was that it
A) secured access to the mouth of the Mississippi River. B) supported American claims to gold deposits in the Midwest. C) opened new territory for the expansion of slavery. D) provided land which could be used to back up the new paper money issued by the National Bank.
"Division of labor" in mass production manufacturing means
a. dividing the work force into capitalists and communists. b. dividing work into specialized and repetitive tasks. c. using "division" as well as other mathematical functions. d. having the worker make the entire product. e. dividing the labor unions in order to weaken them.
Which of the following statements is most consistent with Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis?
a. The prevalence of violence in American society may be explained by the fact that Americans havecontinually had to tame and civilize a vast wilderness
b. The American character has been shaped by the ever-expanding continental frontier.
c. Now that North America has been civilized, the American people will look inward with the goal of creating atruly egalitarian democracy.
d. With the passing of the frontier, Americans must fulfill their destiny by acquiring an overseas empire.
Britain's hiring soldiers from ____ to fight the colonists infuriated North Americans
a. Canada b. Germany c. France d. Spain e. Portugal