What did the civil-service reformers of the late 1870s and early 1880s want?
A) a government bureaucracy that would help free immigrants from poverty.
B) a professional civil service based on merit and staffed by gentlemen.
C) a federal law that would appoint Roscoe Conkling director of government personnel.
D) laws that would help to sustain the dignity of the federal civil service.
E) individual contributions to a political campaign capped at $500.
B
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The Supreme Court's decision in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819 ) upheld the
A) right of a state to take over a private college. B) principle of the sanctity of contracts. C) right of a state to tax federal properties within its boundaries. D) principle of national supremacy over the states.
Different societies meet the challenges posed by relative isolation (or by more intense contact) in different ways, with greater or lesser success. Some thrived; some disappeared
What can we conclude from this about the notion of "progress" in history?
The Lincoln-Douglas debates resulted in:
A) Lincoln's election to the United States Senate. B) Douglas's nomination as president in 1860. C) Lincoln becoming nationally famous as a speaker. D) an increase in abolitionist sentiment.
The Fertile Crescent gets its name because it was good for ________
A) major works of art B) exchange of ideas C) farming D) human reproduction