How did liberals and conservatives modify their long-standing visions of the role government should play?
What will be an ideal response?
George H. W. Bush resisted going to war against Iraq without first gaining the approval of the United Nations. Bill Clinton pursued free trade without protections for workers and the environment that had traditionally been imperatives for liberals. Instead of shrinking the government, George W. Bush ran up massive deficits because of tax cuts and increased domestic and military spending. Contrary to the conservative Powell Doctrine, Bush also adopted the new policy of preemptive war. Both Presidents Bush gave massive amounts of public money to private financial institutions. George W. Bush created programs to give federal money to private religious groups, greatly expanded the federal government's role in education, and claimed new, sweeping powers for the federal government to spy on, monitor, and detain American citizens, denying the principle of habeas corpus.
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What is populism?
What will be an ideal response?
Examine Social Darwinism as well as the growing demand in the late nineteenth century that something be done about the power of big business; indicate the result of this demand; and assess the effectiveness of this result in controlling big business by 1900.
What will be an ideal response?
What colonies made up the "low country"?
A) Virginia and Maryland B) South Carolina and Georgia C) Georgia and Florida D) Delaware and New Jersey
Why was Utopia considered somewhat radical?
A) Proposed a society based on communal living. B) Advocated the overthrow of the prevailing political system. C) Stressed the responsibility of individuals to improve the societies in which they lived; the problem was with society, not the individual sinner. D) Flew in the face of what humanists believed, since the author laid the source of sin squarely at Adam's feet. E) Radically altered the thinking of many "commoners" toward their government, encouraging them to question authority.