Author Question: Congressional hearings chaired by Senator Gerald Nye in the mid-1930s provided evidence of which of ... (Read 109 times)

TVarnum · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

The Trustees of Georgia forbid the colonists to govern themselves or have political power because they believed

a. they would attempt to overthrow the colony and attack the Spanish in Florida.
b. people should be free to govern themselves with a minimum of control by central authority.
c. poverty indicated a strong character and did not want to distract them from gaining wealth.
d. they had weak character or work ethic and thus could not be trusted to govern themselves.

Question 2

Congressional hearings chaired by Senator Gerald Nye in the mid-1930s provided evidence of which of the following?

a. American corporations had largely supported the campaign for arms control legislation.
b. American corporations had bribed foreign politicians to improve arms sales in the 1920s and 1930s.
c. American businesspersons and financiers had pushed the nation into the First World War.
d. American businesspersons and financiers had in no way influenced the nation's involvement in the FirstWorld War.