Author Question: Liberalism in the nineteenth century embraced all the following economic and social ideas EXCEPT ... (Read 59 times)

mwit1967 · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

Newspapers such as the National Intelligencer and the New York Evening Post were important for which of the following reasons?

a. They established the precedent of impartiality by the news media in political campaigns.
b. They constantly fed the insatiable appetite that Americans had for partisan politics.
c. They helped keep elections focused on the real issues by refusing to carry negative personal commentsabout political candidates.
d. They are the first examples of sensationalist journalism in the early republic.

Question 2

Liberalism in the nineteenth century embraced all the following economic and social ideas EXCEPT

a. Adam Smith's theory of laissez-faire economics: the free pursuit of self-interest and profit.
b. the misery of the poor is due to their laziness, poor judgment, and vice.
c. the iron law of wages.
d. the equality of all men means that all men are equally responsible for each other's well-being.
e. state help for the poor is counterproductive.