How is treason defined in the Constitution?
A) signing treaties with foreign countries
B) killing a government official in a duel
C) waging war against the United States
D) criticizing the president’s decisions
Answer: C
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Which of the following is true of President Johnson's response to the August 1964 report that U.S. destroyers had been attacked twice by North Vietnamese patrol boats in the Gulf of Tonkin?
A. Even though evidence of the second attack was questionable, President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnam. B. Johnson suggested the use of tactical nuclear weapons against strategic targets in North Vietnam. C. Johnson expressed grave fears that the incident would bring the United States and the Soviet Union into armed conflict. D. The incident convinced Johnson that North Vietnam was being supplied with sophisticated military equipment by the Soviet Union.
What ultimately led to the final passage of the Compromise of 1850?
a. Southern Congressmen across party lines staged a walkout as the measure was being put to vote. b. Northern Whigs and southern Democrats thought the end result was favorable to their side. c. A majority of congressmen from both sections voted for the entire package. d. Northern Democrats, southern Whigs, and representatives of both parties from the border states supported its key measures.
As president, Andrew Jackson believed the power of the federal government
A. should be expanded. B. should be reduced. C. should be reduced, and yet was supreme over individual states. D. should be expanded and was supreme over individual states. E. was supreme over individual states.
Lincoln kept Maryland in the Union:
A) with military force and the arrests of pro-Confederate officials. B) by exempting Marylanders from the draft. C) with little difficulty. D by carefully respecting Marylanders' civil rights.