Tweed was convicted for stealing an amount estimated by an aldermen's committee in 1877 at between $25 million and $45 million from New York City taxpayers from political corruption, but later estimates ranged as high as $200 million.
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Answer:
ale co?
Explanation:
According to the Seventh Amendment, people who sue companies for not paying them are guaranteed
payment for their work.
representation by lawyers.
trials by jury.
double jeopardy.
Answer: Trials by jury
Explanation:
According to the Seventh Amendment, people who sue companies for not paying them are guaranteed trials by jury.
According to the constitution of the United States, it's simply stated with regards to civil cases, there is a right to a jury trial as long as the case has to do with more than twenty dollars.
Answer:
C. trials by jury
Explanation:
In cases involving +$20, a trial by jury is guaranteed
The water forms rapids where the
rivers meet. These are called cataracts.
True
o
False
1. Place a checkmark next to each of the statements that accurately describes the Virginia Plan:
A.) The Virginia Plan was very similar to the Articles of Confederation.
B.) The Virginia Plan was based on the ideas of James Madison
C.) The Virginia Plan proposed a bicameral legislature.
D.) The Virginia Plan proposed a two-part central govemment.
E.) Under the Virginia Plan, more populated states would have more say in Congress.
F.) The Virginia Plan gave the federal govemment the power to overide state laws
G.) The Virginia Plan gave each state an equal say in Cangress, regardless of population
Why did the British think it was necessary to tax the colonists
Answer:
Britain also needed money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. They decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War. ... The colonists started to resist by boycotting, or not buying, British goods
Explanation:
Answer:
many colonists saw no need for soldiers to be stationed in the colonies.
Explanation:
many colonists saw no need for soldiers to be stationed in the colonies. Britain also needed money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. They decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War.
5. Abolitionists supported what cause?
-The rights of all blacks.
-The freedom and rights of blacks and increased rights of women.
-The rights of freedom of blacks.
-The rights of black men.
Answer:
-The rights of freedom of blacks.
Explanation:
The abolitionists were the group of people who supported the emancipation of black people from slavery in United States.
The movement has began since 1830s, But started to gained the peak of its momentum after the president Abraham Lincoln took the office in 1861. The causes that are supported by the abolitionists actually the main cause of American civil war between the Union (who fight on the abolitionists' side) and the confederate states (who fought against abolitionists' ideal).
In the end, the abolitionist managed to fulfill its ideal. Even though it took hundred and thousand of lives in the process. But those sacrifice paved the path for the abolishment of slavery in 1865.
Answer:
the rights of freedom of blacks
Explanation:
The abolitionist movement was an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States. The first leaders of the campaign, which took place from about 1830 to 1870, mimicked some of the same tactics British abolitionists had used to end slavery in Great Britain in the 1830s.
What are at least two powers not given to central government under articles of confederation?
Answer: One of the biggest problems was that the national government had no power to impose taxes. To avoid any perception of “taxation without representation,” the Articles of Confederation allowed only state governments to levy taxes. To pay for its expenses, the national government had to request money from the states.
Also, Congress could not draft soldiers or regulate trade. There was no provision for national courts.
Explanation:
HELP! Explain how civil society gives people the ability to Influence the government in our ways other than voting and election?
Jews in southwest Asia live mostly in which nation
Answer:
is this all..?
Explanation:
Answer:
Isreal
Explanation:
Hope this helps
What role did Americans play in the Spanish Colonization in the Philippines?
Answer:
Treaty of Paris
Explanation:
Describe the differences between checks and balances and the separation of powers?
Answer:
Separation of powers divides the national government into three branches. Checks and balances refers to the power that each branch exerts over the others and keeps them from becoming more powerful than one another.
Explanation:
Answer:
Separation of powers divides the national government into three branches, the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Checks and balances is the power that each branch passes over stuff like laws, and bills and the others and keeps them from becoming more powerful than one another checks and balances can veto laws/bills too if they do not like the law/bill..
Explanation: Hope this helps :)
What effect did the Anaconda Plan strategy have on the Union?
Answer:
The Anaconda Plan would move 60,000 Union soldiers in 40 steamboats and 20 gunboats down the Mississippi River, capturing forts and towns along the way. This would secure the river down to the naval blockade, dividing the South in half and establishing communications lines between the ships and the North
Explanation:
Which statement best describes the general pattern of precipitation in Texas?
Moving north to south, the climate moves from wettest to driest
Moving east to west, the climate moves from wettest to driest.
Moving south to north, the climate moves from wettest to driest.
Moving west to east, the climate moves from wettest to driest.
Answer:
Moving east to west, the climate moves from wettest to driest.
Explanation:
Texas, a Southern State in the United States, is characterized by its various types of climatic conditions. However, Texas climate can generally be summarized to have a high level of water vapor in the atmosphere, in the eastern region (humid and some level of subtropical), to lesser rain and then very little or no rain at all. (semi-arid and arid).
Hence, in this case, the correct answer is "Moving east to west, the climate moves from wettest to driest."
What is the relationship between citizens of the United States and "global citizens"?
Answer:
Global citizens are people all around the world, not only united states but anywhere on the globe. Whereas the citizens of the united states are only people who live in the united states, no where else in the world. Hope this helps and have a sunny day!
Explanation:
Use the quotation below to answer the following question.
"Our hearts are sickened, our utterance is paralyzed, when we reflect on the condition in which we are placed, by the audacious practices of unprincipled men...We are constrained solemnly to declare, that we cannot but contemplate the enforcement of the stipulations of this instrument on us, against our consent, as an act of injustice and oppression..."
-- Chief John Ross in a letter addressed to Congress, 1836
The quote above directly relates to which of the following events?
a. the Louisiana Purchase
b. the Lews and Clark Expedition
c. the Homestead Act
d. The Trail of Tears
Answer:
D
Explanation:
chief john ross is from the cherokee and cherokee was involved in trail of tear
Why do you think the ideas of the New Lights were appealing to Protestants?
Answer:
They were appealing because, The beliefs of the New Lights of the First Great Awakening competed with the more conservative religion of the first colonists, who were known as Old Lights.
The religious fervor in Great Britain and her North American colonies bound the eighteenth-century British Atlantic together in a shared, common experience.
The main international objection Germany held against Great Britain and France....
Imperialism
Arms Race
Militarism
Colonialism
Nationalism
English Bill of Rights: US Bill of Rights:
That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
–English Bill of Rights,
1689
US Bill of Rights:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
–US Bill of Rights,
1789
Compare the excerpts from the English Bill of Rights and the US Bill of Rights.
What protections are established by both excerpts? Choose two correct answers.
1) protection from seizure of property
2) protection from unlawful arrest
3) protection from cruel punishment
4) protection from excessive fines
5) protection from required punishment
Answer:
Protection from cruel punishment
protection from excusive fines
Explanation:
Answer:
both documents
the Georgia bill of rights
banishment and whipping
Explanation:
The United Nations was founded following the failure of the League of Nations.
True
False
Answer:
true
Explanation:
Answer:
true
Explanation:
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Which of the following was NOT a reason Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait?
A. To gain control of Iran
B. To add a port on the Persian Gulf
C. To avoid paying a debt to Kuwait
D. To increase control of important oil fields
Its C Because he only wanted the oil and not he dint have debt i think
Thomas Jefferson’s belief that government can do only what the Constitution specifically says is known as
Answer:
I believe the answer would be B: Implied powers.
Explanation:
Answer:
D is the correct answer
Did the prophecy for Abraham come true? How?
Yes, the prophecy for Abraham came true. God promised him 3 things: The covenant between Abraham and God consisted of three separate parts: the promised land. the promise of the descendants. the promise of blessing and redemption.
who is pope urban ll
Answer: Pope Urban II, otherwise known as Odo of Châtillon or Otho de Lagery, was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 12 March 1088 to his death. He is best known for initiating the Crusades. Odo was a native of France. He was a descendant of a noble family in Châtillon-sur-Marne.
What helped spark a major abolitionist movement in the 1820's?
Your answer:
A. The Second Great Awakening
B. The Gettysberg Address
C. Segregation of the Armed Forces
D. The election of Abraham Lincoln
Answer:
i believe its A
Explanation:
because the other ones happened later
The United States has a representative democracy. Which of the following best describes a representative democracy?
A.
People are not allowed to vote at all.
B.
People only vote on certain issues.
C.
People elect officials to represent them.
D.
People vote directly on every issue.
Answer:
Correct answer is C. People elect officials to represent them.
Explanation:
A is not correct answer because this is not something that describes representative democracy. One of the main rights of people is to vote.
B is not correct as they vote on free elections that are organized by the government.
C is correct because people are choosing officials (Representers) who are presenting and fighting for their rights.
D is not correct as people are voting on elections, not for every change in the system.
TRUE OR fALSE
The president meets regularly with his cabinet
Answer: true
Explanation:
What began the panic of 1893?
A) high tariffs drove up the costs and caused inflation
B) Gold dropped below a certain level
C) The gold standard was reinstated
D) The US government instituted unlimited silver coinage
Answer:
The answer is B but if you want the following ones it would be in this order
1. B
2. D
3. C
4. C
5. B
Explanation:
I found a letter to one of my friends after school the other day. I know it’s private, but I want to read it! What is the letter?
Select the arrow to the right of each of each box. From the list that is displayed select the keyword that matches the definition given. Each correctly matched keyword is worth 1 point.
Question 10 options:
the right to vote
a method of making high-quality steel at a reasonable price
a person who favors native-born citizens and is opposed to immigrants
the practice of separating racial, ethnic, or religious groups from one another, especially in public places.
a common name for segregation laws, some of which forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep black and white patrons separated
a market that has only one seller of a product for which there are no close substitutes and the seller can influence the price of the product
a tax on imports or exports
an unofficial government that exists alongside a real government
1. Jim Crow
2. segregation
3. suffrage
4. monopoly
5. Bessemer process
6. nativist
7. tariff
8. political machine
WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST HELP ASAP please!!
Answer:
4 ,8
Explanation:
explains most of what is being said
How did the people of Hawakuh react to Estevan’s arrival
Answer:
They were suspicious and told him to stay away,
Explanation: