In order to pursue his goal of using American influence overseas only when it was a moral imperative, Wilson put which man in the position of Secretary of State?
a. William Jennings Bryan
b. Charles Hughes
c. John Pershing
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ans: a. William Jennings Bryan
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A) President Jackson believed that the bank was not doing a good job in creating a unified national market economy that would foster prosperity and stability. B) President Jackson's populist base of political support was among the common people who despised banks and Jackson could do something about the national bank, in contrast to state banks. C) President Jackson despised the bank's president, Nicholas Biddle, for his role in the Panic of 1819 and its aftermath. D) The country was failing, credit was tight, and the currency unsound, prompting many of President Jackson's strongest supporters to call for the closing of the bank.
All of the following constitute steps taken by Benito Mussolini to consolidate power EXCEPT
A. outlawing freedom of speech. B. exiling, imprisoning, or killing Italians who spoke out openly against his regime. C. instituting a communist system of government. D. eliminating all other political parties. E. decreasing freedom of the press.
Frederick Douglass
A. wrote for William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper. B. was born free but was sold into slavery as a youth. C. argued that blacks wanted only an end to slavery, and not full social equality. D. spent years lecturing in England against slavery. E. was an ordained minister.
Republicans proclaimed that they were not bound by the Dred Scott ruling because
a. Scott lacked standing to sue, as the Court determined, making the rest of the ruling null and void. b. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was no longer of sound mind. c. the majority of the Supreme Court justices were southerners. d. the Missouri Compromise had already been invalidated by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. e. popular sovereignty had proven its worth in Kansas.