What was the purpose of the electoral college and the motivation behind it?

What will be an ideal response?


Key Points: Constitutional Convention; elections; the presidency; fears of democracy; elite power

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An increase in cattle-raising took place after the Civil War. Which of the following statements was NOT a reason for that increase?

A) People could afford to eat beef. B) An early marketing tactic suggested that pork was unhealthy. C) Cattle were easy to raise. D) Chickens were difficult to cultivate and raise.

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The body of the combat soldier depends upon the existence of the “wrong” military body. In her interviews, Sasson-Levy learned that the most common comparison was to:

a. women. b. homosexual men. c. male heterosexual soldiers who failed to endure the physical training. d. little boys.

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__________'s Babbitt critiqued empty materialism

A) Sinclair Lewis B) Upton Sinclair C) F. Scott Fitzgerald D) Langston Hughes

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The reformers' intention in the reservation policy and the Dawes Act was to __________

A) protect Indian culture B) curtail white settlement C) restore Indian-governed tribal lands D) assimilate individual Indians into white culture

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