To progressives, the commissions they championed offered a way to __________
A) increase their political power
B) reduce the power of reformers
C) end the corrupt alliance between business and politics
D) provide employment for their supporters
E) get regular citizens into political offices
Answer: C
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a. aristocratic privilege b. the underclass c. economic inequality d. individual liberties
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a. set aside a section of each township for education. b. abolished slavery in all of the United States. c. prohibited slavery in the Old Northwest. d. kept power in the national government. e. established a commission to determine the extent of a need for a Bill of Rights.
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a. Nelson Rockefeller resigned the vice presidency to become governor of New York. b. Spiro Agnew resigned on corruption charges and Nixon appointed Ford under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. c. he was selected to replace Spiro Agnew as Nixon's vice president in the 1972 campaign. d. Nixon was impeached and Congress needed to select a new president. e. the Twenty-Fifth Amendment made the Speaker of the House vice president in case of potential impeachment.