In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson responded to mounting inflation at home by
A. calling for a tax reduction.
B. reinstalling the wartime wage and price controls of the Truman administration.
C. reducing the American troops in Vietnam.
D. increasing taxes while agreeing to large funding reductions in Great Society programs.
E. raising the Federal Reserve interest rate.
Answer: D
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Which was not one of the devices used by southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage?
What will be an ideal response?
Between 1824 and 1828, voter turnout:
A) increased 25 percent. B) increased 50 percent. C) doubled. D) tripled.