George W. Bush enjoyed vast popular support after September 11, 2001, based on his administration’s image of toughness and resolve. What event led these policies to become divisive?
a. a court-packing plan that pushed for socially conservative justices
b. military intervention in Iraq based on inaccurate reports that Iraq possessed weapons of mass
destruction.
c.
following too closely to U.N. sanctions and refusal to act upon U.S. intelligence
d.
the federal bailouts of banks after economic collapse
e.
inactivity in Africa during the crisis in Darfur and the Congo
ANS: B
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a. family and friends b. television advertisements c. political parties d. voter registration drives
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a. devastated local economies because the machines ran cities into severe debt. b. had no effect on local economies because the machines targeted state economies over local ones. c. was not debilitating to local economies because machine politics wanted to make and spend money. d. intertwined the local, state, and national economies by increasing the spread of machine politics nationwide.