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Question 1

The Twenty-Seventh Amendment that was ratified over 200 years after it was originally introduced by Madison in 1789 called for __________.
 
  A) allowing voters to directly elect the president
  B) taxing religious institutions so that they could assist funding the federal government
  C) preventing Congress from giving itself a pay raise while it is in session
  D) providing the accused with speedy and public trials by jury

Question 2

How does the design of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which was dedicated in 1921 during the Washington Conference, represent the diplomatic goals of the Harding and Coolidge administrations?
 
  A) The laurel wreaths signify that the United States was a world power in the postwar period.
  B) The allegorical figures represent the diplomatic goals of peace, valor, and victory.
  C) The concept of interring an unknown soldier reaffirmed the need for global disarmament.
  D) The hand-joined allegorical figures represent the success of a multinational nonaggression
  pact.

Question 3

How does John Gast's 1872 painting American Progress reveal the bitter conflict that accompanied the transformation of the West?
 
  A) A cluster of Native Americans and a herd of buffalo flee before the advancing whites.
  B) The miners resort to open-pit mining that permanently scarred the landscape.
  C) The farmers on the right are dealing with the effects of drought and insect swarms.
  D) The mountains in the background symbolize the isolation that Westerners faced.



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again




 

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