Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana gained a large national following by promising to
a. nationalize all banks and public utility companies.
b. make Jews pay for causing the Great Depression.
c. help farmers and workers organize to resist the power of corporations.
d. provide the unemployed and elderly a $200-a-month social security payment.
e. "share our wealth" by raising taxes on the rich and giving every family $5,000.
e
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Which statement is true about both lynch mobs and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s?
A) They revived their activities after being suppressed during Reconstruction. B) Their targets included not only African Americans, but also Jews, Catholics, immigrants and feminists. C) They were unashamed of their actions and unafraid to reveal their identities. D) Although they were usually prosecuted for their crimes, juries rarely found them guilty. E) Federal law soon constrained their activities.
Although he was branded a heretic, Peter Waldo's call for believers to live a simple, Christ-like life, resembled the teachings of
A) Francis of Assisi. B) Dominic de Guzman. C) Bernard of Chartres. D) Gelbert of Aurillac. E) Peter Lombard.
In the Bakke v. Regents of the University of California (1978) decision, the Supreme Court ruled
A. that holding a particular number of enrollment slots open for minorities was fine, but general consideration of race was not. B. affirmative action and numerical quotas constitutional. C. affirmative action was fine, but numerical quotas were not. D. affirmative action was entirely unconstitutional.
In the seventeenth century, as slavery spread in the South,
a. economic differences within society narrowed. b. the great plantation owners turned to lives of leisure. c. the gaps in the South's social structure widened. d. planters tried to imitate the ways of English country gentlemen. e. the issue of mixed-race (mulatto) children became prominent.