Which of the following groups supported the Whigs?
A) advocates of Clay's American System
B) proslavery expansionists
C) admirers of Andrew Jackson
D) newly arrived immigrants
A
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The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the
A) Pentagon. B) offices of the Committee to Re-elect the President. C) offices of the Democratic National Committee. D) Oval Office.
Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana had a controversial vote because
A) she was a woman representative. B) Montana had the largest percent of military people of any state. C) she would later vote against World War II. D) suffragists wanted the war in order to push for the right to vote for women and they pressured Rankin to take their side.
Why did American reformers argue against segregating Native Americans on reservations?
A) They thought Native Americans should be sent to the North where they could live freely. B) They felt that reservations took too much land away from white settlers. C) They felt that Native Americans should be allowed to live their traditional lifestyles in the West. D) They believed that Native Americans should be assimilated into white American culture. E) They felt that reservations should include both Native Americans and white settlers.
In the 1890s, Jacob Riis
A. crusaded to expose political corruption in major American cities. B. favored stopping immigration as a way to improve urban American cities. C. pushed for the creation of mass transit systems and outlying suburbs in America's cities. D. reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements. E. documented the stories of wealthy Americans who came from humble origins.