Answer:
The general opinion of many Americans at the time of the purchase was that Jefferson was being hypocritical by going through with it. Jefferson was known to have a strict interpretation of the Constitution and believed the president only had the powers the Constitution gave him. Since there was no Constitutional precedent for buying land to add territory to the United States, there was theoretically no Constitutional authority for the president to buy the land.
Many of those in the Federalist party (the opposing party to Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans) believed that he would have objected on Constitutional grounds if any of them had tried to do the same thing. Therefore, the Federalists were very much opposed to the purchase. They also believed that by buying land from France, they would alienate Great Britain, whom they wanted as a close ally.
The movement known as the Enlightenment focused on the idea that problems could be solved using human reason.
<em>Answers first, some detail later:</em>
1. The international organization developed in 1960 to stabilize international oil prices and to oversee petroleum imports and investments is:
<h2>OPEC
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2. The Middle East is a stable region with many peace treaties and no ongoing issues.
<h2>False
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3. All of the following statements about oil in the Middle East are true except:
<h2>oil wealth is distributed equally among all of the citizens in oil rich countries</h2>
<u>Some further details:</u>
OPEC stands for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Within that, there was also the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), formed in 1968. The Middle Eastern countries that are members of OPEC are also aligned in OAPEC.
The Middle Eastern countries with large oil deposits tend not to be open, democratic societies. Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, and the majority of the populations in their countries live in far from affluent conditions.
The Mongols gained power because they had a strong army. ... They consolidated power by winning over the Chinese by ruling in a traditional Chinese style and building dams and the Grand Canal. Kublai Khan built these water projects.
The words that are missing in the sentence are The Second Great Awakening and moral renewal. The so-called Second Great Awakening is referring to revival of religious during the early nineteenth century, where the preachers are advocating or sharing the message of spiritual and moral renewal to people.
