In an effort to thwart Progressive state legislation, the Supreme Court reinterpreted
It's original ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson
The Theory of Social Darwinism
It's earliest antitrust suit in the E.C Knight v. United States case
The property clause of the Sixteenth Amendment
The "due process" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
"Stagflation,” an economic problem characterized by high inflation at a time of slow economic growth, plagued the administration of
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Ronald Reagan
The Constitution provided for both the federal governments and the states to share the power to
Coin money
Regulate Interstate Commerce
Establish Post Offices
Control the State Militias
Admit New States
The Nineteenth Amendment achieved one of the goals of the Progressives by
Granting women the right to vote
Establishing Prohibition
Providing for the direct election of senators
Ensuring citizenship rights for African-Americans
Establishing term limits for elected officials
The primary goal of the antebellum Liberty part was to
Ensure women's suffrage
Prevent the expansion of slavery into new territories
Oppose industrial capitalism and ensure the rights of factory workers
Limit foreign immigration to Northern cities
Promote free transportation on the new railroads spreading throughout the nation
The onset of the Panic of 1837 and Great Depression shared which of the following causes?
Over speculation on the stock market
The lack of standardized currency
Overproduction of war goods
Unregulated banking systems
Over speculation in western land sales
Reflecting a new focus on individualism, which of the following authors created the character of “Natty Bumppo,” a rugged frontiersman who struggled against the disorders of his society?
Frederick Jackson Turner
Henry David Thoreau
James Fenimore Cooper
Henry Wadsworth
Theodore Dwight Weld
In April 1775, “the shot heard round the world” occurred at Lexington when British soldiers clashed with Massachusetts minutemen. The reason that General Gage dispatched troops to Lexington and concord was to
Arrest radical leaders and seize stockpiled weapons
Save Governor Thomas Hutchinson after the Boston Tea Party
Enlist the support of the colon's committee of correspondence
Suppress violent reactions to the Stamp Act
Help benedict Arnold escape capture
The Bank War pitted Nicholas Biddle, Henry Clay, and the National Republicans against President Andrew Jackson and Secretary of Treasury Roger B. Taney ultimately. Ultimately, Jackson and Taney destroyed the bank by:
Revoking the Bank Charter in 1828
Proving that the creation of the B.U.S was unconstitutional
Placing deposits of federal tax money in state banks
Failing to enforce Marshalls decision in Fletcher v. Peck
Many colonial assemblies imposed taxes to support official churches. All of the following colonies had established churches except:
Massachusetts
Virginia
Georgia
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
