What is the U.S. balance of trade? What general trends can be identified in its history? Where does it stand now?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should describe the balance of trade as the relationship between how much the United States imports and exports. Answers should indicate that the balance of trade was close to even until the early 1980s. Answers should explain that the recent trend is to import more than is exported.
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In The Federalist Papers No. 51, James Madison ________
a. worries that too much democracy is as bad as a corrupt monarch b. defends checks and balances within the new government structure c. believes that if people are given total freedom, life can be safe and prosperous d. argues for increased individual state powers to protect civil liberties e. none of the above is correct
Political scientist Giovanni Sartori described the process of voters fleeing from centrist to extremist parties, which happened in Germany in the 1930s, as__________
a. the politics of extremism b. polarized pluralism c. the democratic deficit d. Machtpolitik
Information about state action spreads quickly from government to government, especially during periods when the national government is relatively slow to respond to pressing issues
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The border states were those
a. slave states that remained loyal to the Union. b. free states that joined the Confederacy. c. states divided between the Union and Confederacy. d. states along the border of Canada and the United States. e. states along the border of Mexico and the United States.