Of all the political innovations of the era of the American Revolution, which can be considered the most radical?
A) the theory that power within a government had to be restrained through a series of checks and balances.
B) the realization that both houses of a bicameral legislature represented all the people, not just narrow classes.
C) the idea that political institutions should be judged by the standard of whether they served the public good rather than the interests of the powerful few.
D) the assertion that government was based on the consent of the governed and that revolution, therefore, was sometimes justifiable.
E) the introduction of government with powers divided among three branches.
Question 2
Abigail Adams is best remembered for
A) Sewing the first American flag
B) Participating in important boycotts of British goods during the Revolution
C) Challenging gender roles in a letter to her husband
D) Serving as a spy during the American Revolution
E) Being the first published female author in the United States
Survivorship curve for the North American beaver.
Resource partitioning among five species of warblers feeding in North American spruce trees.
The American paddlefish is poached for its eggs
American Foreign Trade, 1790–1812
Which Political Party Dominates?
North American Climates