Author Question: The results of the 1912 election a. represented a complete repudiation of the political and ... (Read 52 times)

berenicecastro · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The results of the 1912 election

a. represented a complete repudiation of the political and economic principles of progressivism.
b. gave Woodrow Wilson a resounding electoral victory in the presidential contest, but a narrower popular vote victory for Wilson, especially in states outside the old Confederacy.
c. left both houses of Congress in the hands of the Republicans.
d. marked the end of the political career of William Howard Taft in Washington, D.C.
e. included a negligible and disappointing popular vote total for the Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs.

Question 2

Senator Joseph McCarthy first rose to national prominence by

a. revealing that communist spies were passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
b. charging that there was extensive communist influence in Hollywood and the media.
c. asserting that General George Marshall was part of a vast communist conspiracy within the U.S. Army.
d. mobilizing Republicans to demand a stronger anticommunist foreign policy in East Asia.
e. charging that dozens of known communists were working within the U.S. State Department.