Why did Congress refuse Reagan's request for money and authority for further intervention in Nicaragua?
a. an honest belief that the Nicaraguan conflict was no threat to the United States
b. a desire to block as many of Reagan's foreign policy moves as possible
c. fear of repeating the mistakes of the Vietnam War
d. fear of angering the public in an election year
e. the lack of available funds, given the unhealthy state of the U.S. economy
C
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A) slavery and worldliness. B) temperance and worldliness. C) women's rights and slavery. D) slavery and temperance.
Thomas Jefferson's general statement of the right of revolution in the Declaration of Independence
A) rejected the assumptions of most 18th century liberals. B) has had little historical impact. C) was intended by Jefferson to be an expression of the American mind. D) was primarily intended to influence domestic opinion.
Which of the following traditional healing arts of non-Western peoples attracted Westerners after medical practitioners discovered the healing plants of Amazonian forest dwellers, Chinese peasants, and Himalayan shamans?
a. ethnobotany b. homeopathy c. naturopathy d. osteopathy
The founder of the Persian Empire was named
a. Xerxes. b. Cyrus. c. Artaxerxes. d. Darius.