Why did opponents criticize Hamilton's assumption program?
a. It rewarded states like Massachusetts, which had sloppy financial systems, for nonpayment of debt.
b. It proposed a lengthy and unrealistic policy of repaying the original holders of the debt.
c. Only the poor would profit from the program, disadvantaging the rich and creating larger economic issues.
d. The program was disproportionately favorable to the South.
e. The program could lead to the establishment of a monarchy.
A
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a. lack of sympathy for labor. b. regulated monopoly. c. consistent favoring of big business. d. inflexibility in foreign policy.
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b. 1,900 Americans were prosecuted under these laws. c. the laws meant that any criticism of the government could be censored and punished. d. the Supreme Court ultimately ruled that they were unconstitutional violations of freedom of speech and association. e. after the war, President Harding issued pardons to many of those prosecuted, including labor leader Eugene Debs.
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A. the use of movie stars to enhance a corporation's public image. B. General Electric's approach to labor negotiations. C. communism. D. free market capitalism.
Which of the following terms matches this definition "agricultural labor tied to an estate with rights including military protection, heritable ownership of a plot of land and owing obligations to share crop yields each season with his or her lord".
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