In an effort to detect communists within the federal government, President Harry Truman established the
a. Committee on Un-American Activities.
b. Central Intelligence Agency.
c. Smith Act.
d. McCarran Internal Security Act.
e. Loyalty Review Board.
Answer: E
APUSH
- Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Summer nearly to death on the Senate floor because
- Hilton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South contented that
- Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise primarily because
- Within two months after the election of Lincoln
- During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party
- In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic party
- Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because
- The crucial Freeport Question that Lincoln demanded that Douglas answer during their debates was whether
- The financial and economic collapse of 1857 increased northern anger at the South's refusal to support
- In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court
- The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for
- Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor because
- The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into violent antislavery politics by
- As submitted to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution was designed to
- Southerners were especially enraged by abolitionists' funding of antislavery settlers in Kansas because
- Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South contended that
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Northerners especially resented Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act because it
- The Gadsden Purchase was fundamentally designed to
- The primary goal of the Treaty of Kanagawa , which Commodore Matthew Perry signed with Japan in 1854, was
- Southerners seeking to expand the territory of slavery undertook filibustering military expeditions to acquire
- The conflict over slavery following the election of 1852 led shortly to the
- The most significant effect of the Fugitive Slave Law, passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, was
- The greatest winner in the Compromise of 1850 was
- Under the terms of the Compromise of 1850