President James Madison saw Macon´s Bill No. 2 as a
a. shameful acknowledgement of America´s economic weakness, which left trade policy up to the war-makers in the Europe.
b. brilliant application of Jefferson´s ideal of economic coercion.
c. reasonable compromise on embargo policy in an impossible situation.
d. shrewd way to force Napoleon to stop harassing American merchant ships.
e. guarantee that America would be dragged into the European War.
a
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Levittown represented a change toward
a. an increase in Americans who owned small farms. b. affordable homes in American suburbs. c. a belief in labor-management equity. d. the development of suburbs tied to ethnic identity.
Although Versailles was enormously expensive, Louis XIV would have considered it a good investment because
A) nobles forced to live at Versailles were less of a threat to royal power. B) it made him the most admired man in Europe. C) talented administrators to ran the kingdom from Paris while he enjoyed life at Versailles. D) its fortifications kept him safe from attack. E) it provided employment to thousands of French men and women.
Adopted by the House of Representatives in 1836, the gag rule
a. ordered the immediate arrest of any and all persons engaged in the slave trade in Washington, D.C. b. ordered the cessation of debate in southern state legislatures over South Carolina's ordinance of nullification. c. made it illegal for anyone in the United States to speak against slavery. d. automatically tabled abolitionist petitions and thus prevented debate on them.
Black lynchings such as the one illustrated in this image of New York City in 1863 were the result of white New Yorkers responding to the __________
A) Emancipation Proclamation B) new military draft that exempted the rich C) Copperheads' demands for a cease-fire with the Confederacy D) increased competition with blacks for wage-paying jobs