Which of the following is true of law enforcement officials in late-nineteenth-century American cities?
a. They often had to answer to various groups that differed on their views of the law and how it should be enforced
b. They were merely volunteers with no professional training or status.
c. They were far more consistent in how they applied the law to various social classes and ethnic groups than is the case in today's society.
d. They usually showed far more leniency in applying the law to the disadvantaged.
a
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a. Cyrus McCormick b. John Deere c. Elias Howe d. Eli Whitney
The major importance of the Alger Hiss case was that
a. Hiss had clearly stolen top-security documents from the State Department. b. Whittaker Chambers was convicted of perjury. c. people began to place more importance on Hiss as a symbol than as an alleged spy. d. it cast suspicions upon the Eisenhower administration for the first time.
What two events that took place in 1949 led to Communist gains during the Cold War?
A) creation of the Warsaw Pact and the failed anti-Communist revolution in Hungary B) North Korea's invasion of South Korea and the Sino-Soviet Treaty between China and the USSR C) the Communist-led coup in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet blockade of Berlin D) Soviet acquisition of an atomic bomb and the Communists' takeover of China
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a. a loyal opposition through a two-party system b. a division of power between the national and state governments c. the establishment of naturalization laws d. the popular election of Federal judges