Why did Abraham Lincoln have difficulty in getting Congress to adopt the Thirteenth Amendment?
a. Republicans in the Senate were opposed to it.
b. Republicans in the House were opposed to it.
c. Most Democrats in the House were opposed to it.
d. The Southern states were opposed to it.
Question -2-In what way was the Senate designed to be different from the House of Representatives?
a. The Senate was designed to be less immediately responsive to public demands.
b. The Senate was designed to be more immediately responsive to public demands.
c. The Senate was designed to be more liberal than the House.
d. The Senate was designed to be less concerned with international issues than the House.
Question -3-The Extended Republic refers to
a. the idea that the U.S. government would naturally extend to the Western ocean.
b. the idea that a government extending across all the states would provide for greater stability.
c. the idea that national boundaries extend into what are otherwise international waters.
d. the idea that governmental authority should extend into what the colonists stressed were private matters, such as religion and property.
Question -4-Shayss Rebellion was
a. a religious uprising in New England, protesting the Church of England.
b. an important battle in the Revolutionary War, the British Armys first important defeat.
c. a military action by an alliance of Native Americans who resisted the theft of their lands.
d. an uprising in Massachusetts of farmers who protested the loss of their farms to creditors.
Question -5-How did the typical immigrants to what would become the United States in the 1700s differ from the commoners in the European countries they left behind?
a. They were less religious than the people that remained in Europe.
b. They owned land.
c. They had effective standing armies.
d. They were not as poor as those who remained in Europe.
Question -6-A courts opinion holds a legislative act unconstitutional because it infringes on a persons right to do something that is not mentioned in the basic law. This is an example of
a. judicial independence.
b. judicial restraint.
c. judicial stability.
d. judicial activism.