Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because
a. William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's progressive policies.
b. Taft decided not to run for a second term.
c. Teddy Roosevelt had developed a personal animus against William Howard Taft.
d. Senator Robert La Follette encouraged him to do so.
e. the Democratic party was split.
a
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Missionaries Henry Spalding and his wife
a) lived among the Nez Perce for a decade. b) brought the first printing press to the region and translated and printed portions of the Bible. c) baptized a Nez Perce leader named Joseph. d) fled from the region after neighboring missionaries were killed by the Cayuse Indians. e) all of the above
"Now the Earl of Granville's Office, shut in such a manner, that no one in the Province knew but it would open again every year. . . . [B]ut four or five years being now elapsed, there is so much of the Lands seated under these Circumstances [cleared and cultivated], that Individuals in Power, and who has Money, are Marking them out for a Prey. . . . It is to be feared too many of our Rulers have an eye to make a Prey of these poor People, because an Opinion seems to be propagated, that it is Criminal to cut a Tree down off the vacant Lands. Whether this Notion took its Rise from the great Men's making Tar and Turpentine on vacant Lands . . . or from the Motive's above mentioned [powerful men seeking improved lands], I would advise no honest Man to suffer such an Opinion to take Place
with him; for the Thing is so inhuman and base, that you will not find a man but he will deny and clear himself, or hide such a Design as long as he can. . . ." According to Herman Husband's pamphlet, why were government officials refusing to grant farmers title to their lands? What will be an ideal response?
President Calvin Coolidge __________________.
A. raised tax rates on incomes over $50,000 B. engaged in deficit spending C. vetoed bills that would have established government-backed price supports for staple crops D. supported attempts to enforce antitrust laws more strictly
Which of the following reflects a common ground between the North and the South in the middle of the nineteenth century?
a) commitment to republican ideals b) rejection of evangelical religion c) support for social reform d) repudiation of white supremacy