In the election of 1916,
a. Woodrow Wilson's campaign slogan was "He kept us out of war."
b. the Republican presidential candidate was Theodore Roosevelt.
c. Irish and German Americans supported the Socialist candidate Eugene V Debs.
d. Woodrow Wilson won by the largest electoral margin in U.S. history.
e. Woodrow Wilson ran on a war platform.
a
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The abolitionist newspaper launched by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831 was:
A) Freedom's Journal. B) The Liberator. C) The Appeal. D) The News and Observer.
Wartime problems left the American economy damaged by the 1780s. What was NOT one of those problems?
a. Runaway inflation b. Profiteering c. Build-up of British wartime surpluses that flooded into postwar America and hurt homegrown businesses d. Loss of capital due to widespread emancipation of slaves e. Speculation
Henry Clay embraced a program in 1824 called the American System which would create all of the following except
a. a strong banking system. b. easy and abundant credit. c. a protective tariff to enable manufacturing to grow. d. a network of roads and canals for transporting foodstuffs, raw materials and manufactured goods nationwide. e. the constitutional right of individual states to nullify laws enacted by Congress that adversely affected their economic interests.
The war effort by American colonists would be financed primarily by
A. melting down jewelry into specie. B. spending hard currency. C. selling bonds. D. printing paper money. E. borrowing from abroad.