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Questions for Dye and Zeigler, Ch. 3

1. What do the authors mean by circulation of elites?

2. What were the important policies established by Hamilton during the first administration? What policies did the Jeffersonians change? What remained the same? What was distinctive about the rise of the western elites such as Andrew Jackson?

3. Describe the differences between the northern and southern elites. How did the differences lead to civil war? Describe the authors’ view of the Emancipation Proclamation.

4. Describe the rise of the new industrial elite. What were its characteristics?

5. Give a reason why the authors feel that liberal reforms were really elite self-interest.

6. Discuss why the authors feel that the Vietnam War was an elite failure of leadership.

7. How do the authors feel that the Gulf War restored elite leadership?

8. Discuss the problems with elite objectives that the authors see in Iraq.