Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of the stock market in the months leading up to the October 1929 crash?
A) There was a frenzied upsurge in stock prices.
B) The market value of all stocks more than tripled in four years.
C) Stockbrokers lending buyers up to 75 percent of a stock's cost
D) Steep income-tax hikes suddenly cut the flow of money into the market.
E) Investment trusts lured novices into the market
D
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The strategic Cape was a warring area between Zulu, Boers, and the British. Which of the following statements is true in regard to this area?
a. British settlers were slaughtered by Boer farmers. b. British settlements were part of the Great Trek. c. Following the advice of Nongqawuse, they were successful in holding onto their grazing areas. d. As Xhosa slaughtered their cattle and faced starvation, their conquest by the British was inevitable. e. The Xhosa cleansed their ancient religious beliefs of Christianity.
During most of the 1970s, Iran
a. allied itself with the nearby Soviet Union against Western threats to seize Iran's oil. b. was ruled by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. c. suffered economic depression as a result of deep declines in the price of oil. d. was allied with Israel in Iran's war against Iraq. e. successfully managed to solve its various social and economic challenges, including a major reform program which distributed land to Iran's peasant farmers.
Discuss the characteristics of the crop-lien system, and explain the system's impact on poor southern farmers.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following constrained British colonial ambitions in the Americas?
a) the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon b) the expulsion of Jews and Moors during the Reconquista c) the uneven effects of the Columbian Exchange d) the terms of the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494