In order to protect the country from the problems of concentrated authority, the writers of the Constitution used the idea of a
a. federal structure of government.
b. separation of powers.
c. system of checks and balances.
d. all of the answers above.
e. a political system to control the country for their own political faction.
ANS: D
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a. local governments gained considerable autonomy. b. methods of state censorship and repression collapsed. c. much of the Old Regime managed to survive. d. aristocrats lost their monopoly on the army and administration. e. all tax exemptions were eradicated in favor of new economic policies.
President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972
A. aroused deep animosity from the majority of Chinese communists. B. was designed to bring the United States closer to Chiang Kai-shek. C. came after Taiwan was expelled from the United Nations. D. was opposed by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. E. moved the United States into a deeper conflict with the Soviet Union.
The term in which Western domination was maintained primarily by economic rather than political or military means was:
A. pan-Africanism. B. Decolonization. C. neo-colonialism. D. Capitalism. E. non-settlement.
Peasants made up the overwhelming mass of the Third Estate except in
A. England and Scotland. B. Aragon and Castille. C. Normandy and Aquitaine. D. Bavaria and the Balkans. E. Flanders and northern Italy.