The Whig Party favored all of the following EXCEPT
A) the Independent Treasury. B) rechartering the national bank.
C) federally-funded internal improvements. D) high protective tariffs.
A
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What differences existed between how political leaders assumed the bailout plan of 2008 would work and how it actually worked?
A. Political leaders assumed the bailout plan would provide banks with the means to avoid bankruptcy and stay in business, but many went out of business anyway. B. Political leaders assumed that banks would use the bailout money to help Americans stay in their homes, but most Americans were not interested in taking on any new debt, even if it meant losing their homes. C. Political leaders assumed that the bailout plan would provide banks with the means to start lending again and stimulate an economic revival, but banks did not focus on making loans to creditworthy businesses and individuals. D. Political leaders assumed that the bailout plan would provide banks with the means to hire new employees, thus jump-starting the economy, but the banks used the money to provide bonuses to its own leadership.
The two most important leaders of the Great Awakening in colonial America were __________
a. Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield b. John Winthrop and Jonathan Edwards c. John Locke and Benjamin Franklin d. Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard e. Cotton Mather and George Whitefield
At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the New Jersey Plan proposed:
a. a two-house Congress with powers of taxing and regulating commerce b. one branch of government having executive, legislative, and judicial functions c. equal representation for each state in a one-house Congress d. that the federal government would not have the power to tax or regulate commerce
In 1864, Congress put forward its own plan for Reconstruction in the __________
A) Wade-Davis Bill B) Freedmen's Bureau Act C) Loyalty Act D) Sherman Act