According to the introductory video in section 16.3, what feature of the American political system helps to explain the weakness of working-class politics in the United States?
A) the electoral college
B) the separation of powers
C) the two-party system
D) the two-house legislature
Answer: C
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President Thomas Jefferson's Indian policy included
A. an offer to Indians to reorganize their territory as a separate state in the Union. B. an offer to Indians to become settled farmers and join white society, and an insistence that they give up claims to tribal lands in the Northwest. C. an offer to Indians to become settled farmers and join white society, and to reorganize their territory as a separate state in the Union. D. the insistence that Indians reduce the size of their exclusive tribal lands in the Northwest, as well as allow some limited hunting by white settlers on those lands. E. an offer to Indians to have full citizenship in the United States and the right to vote.
The American System was designed to
A) promote American internal improvements, especially the building of roads and canals, to foster economic growth and protect domestic manufacturers from foreign competition through higher average tariffs on imported goods. B) reduce the cost of foreign imports through lowering the percentage of the average tariff on imported goods. C) emphasize traditional sectional divides by making state governments the primary agents of economic development. D) exclude infrastructure improvements that would serve military needs because of the need to reduce the size of the military after the War of 1812.
Helping to spread consumer culture in the 1920s was ________, the world's first broadcasting system.
A. radio B. the telegraph C. the telephone D. television
The __________ was an international pacifist group founded in 1914 that promoted nonviolent strategies for achieving social justice
A) American Friends Service Committee B) Fellowship of Reconciliation C) Young Communist League D) NAACP