Ancient Persia covered roughly the area of modern __________
A) Iraq
B) Iran
C) Israel
D) Turkey
Answer: B
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What was significant about the 1936 presidential election?
A) Black voters in the South shifted to the Republican Party. B) Fewer blacks voted because violence and intimidation tactics were rampant. C) Black voters outside the South shifted in significant numbers to the Democrats. D) Whites refused to vote for Roosevelt because of his support for black political issues.
Which of the following plans was not offered by the newly elected President John Quincy Adams?
a. New exploration of the west b. Money for a naval academy c. Funding a national astronomical observatory d. Money for a new class of armored warships e. Institution of a uniform set of weights and measures
The terms of the Adams Onis Treaty (1819) included all of the following except:
a. Spain ceded all of Florida to the United States. b. The United States agreed that the Southwestern boundary of Louisiana excluded Mexico's province of Texas. c. The United States recognized Spanish claims to California and Oregon. d. The United States assumed payment of $5 million in debts owed by Spain to U.S. citizens.
Jefferson and Madison opposed the creation of the Bank of the United States for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) they felt it would harm independent farmers. B) they believed it would enrich the already wealthy who had made their supposedly ill-gotten gains through speculation rather than hard work. C) they believed the bank was an unconstitutional extension of federal power. D) they favored the economic interests allied with large state-chartered banks over those economic interests who would benefit from a federally chartered Bank of the United States.