With a bit of hindsight, how would you characterize the 2008 presidential and congressional elections? Were they a "referendum" on the Bush administration or are they perhaps better described another way?

What will be an ideal response?


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Examine the wartime expansion of presidential power and federal authority.

What will be an ideal response?

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Why did many northerners lose interest in fighting for equal rights for blacks by the 1870s?

A) They believed that blacks already had achieved equal rights in much of the country. B) They felt that their support was only hurting and not helping blacks gain rights. C) They were intimidated by blacks in the South and did not want to encourage rebellion. D) They felt that southern whites should be active in the cause instead. E) They had grown tired of the issue, and many believed in white superiority.

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Membership in the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was limited to

A) Jews. B) All non-Christians. C) Protestants. D) Catholics.

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The Quaker naturalist __________ drafted a pioneering nature book about his travels throughout the Southeast

A) Charles Willson Peale B) Thomas Jefferson C) William Bartram D) Jedidiah Morse

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