Mormons were subjects of persecution because they seemed to oppose all the following values EXCEPT A) private property. B) individualism. C) monogamous marriage. D) economic opportunity. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions asserted that the ________ had the right to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional, null and void. A) President B) Supreme Court C) states D) House of Representatives ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Richard Hakluyt argued that England’s colonization of the New World would do all of the following EXCEPT A) help England avoid war with Spain. B) supply England with valuable resources. C) solve the problem of large-scale unemployment in England. D) stimulate the shipbuilding industry. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
President John Quincy Adams’s policy preferences were disliked by all of the following EXCEPT A) high tariff protectionists. B) proslavery southerners. C) states’ rightists. D) strict constructionists. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Think of yourself as a member of Congress in 1791. Tell your constituents how you will vote on Secretary Hamilton’s funding, assumption, bank, and manufacturing proposals. Explain why you will vote for or against each proposal. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Those voting for would explain the need to establish and expand […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
One of the major problems faced by the original Jamestown settlers was that A) they placed too much emphasis on agricultural efforts. B) they were unprepared for the hard labor that was required. C) the cold climate made winters unbearable. D) they had no desire for personal economic gain. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Assume the role of a state legislator in 1798-1799. What argument would you use to encourage your state to endorse the action of the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures in adopting their Resolutions? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER States need a way to defend themselves against the power of the national government; the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Upon becoming president, Thomas Jefferson pledged his administration’s support for all of the following principles EXCEPT A) democratic simplicity. B) limited government. C) states’ rights. D) implied powers. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The lack of significant legislative action by Congress in the Gilded Age is explained by all of the following EXCEPT the A) prevailing popular concept of limited government. B) usual agreement on significant issues between the two major parties. C) general absence of important political issues. D) virtual equality of power between the two major […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
According to nineteenth-century economist John Smith Dye, the entire history of the United States was the record of repeated A) abolitionist attempts to foment slave rebellion in the South. B) efforts by the federal government to destroy states’ rights. C) Southern plots to expand slavery. D) slaveholder conspiracies to destroy the Union. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
