Why does Thomas Rossiter portray the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in this nineteenth-century painting as haloed by light?
A) He wanted to emphasize the virtue of the delegates because they opposed slavery.
B) He wanted to make sure that every viewer could identify George Washington as president of
the convention.
C) He wanted to show that the delegates were not a covert group who met in secrecy.
D) He wanted to make up for the deficiencies and lack of experience possessed by the delegates.
C
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Khrushchev installed nuclear missiles in Cuba for which of the following reasons?
a. He was preparing for a nuclear strike against the United States. b. He did so solely to persuade the United States to remove its missiles from Turkey. c. He did so both to deter an American invasion of Cuba and to improve the Soviet Union's position in the nuclear balance of power d. He was attempting to build an anti-American alliance among Latin American nations under Soviet control.
The reason underlying Alexander Hamilton's proposal that the United States government redeem all bonds at face value and pay all state debts was
a. to force the northern states to help southern states that had not paid their debts b. to enrich himself because he had bought bonds at a discount c. to enrich bond speculators who were his political supporters d. to convince wealthy Americans that the United States was a safe investment e. to convince other nations that the United States did not need foreign investment
Unlike the urban sprawl of less industrialized nations, urban sprawl in industrialized nations has been typified by
A. poor job-seekers moving nearer city centers. B. the middle class moving nearer city centers. C. the poor erecting shantytowns around city cores. D. the middle class moving out of city centers.
Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending Crisis (1857) was __________.
A. an attack on northern abolitionists and manufacturers B. an attack on slavery by a native Southerner C. an attack on slavery by a northern abolitionist D. a protest against the congressional "gag rule"