A dazzling year for the American economy was 1929 because:
a. the United States finally got Britain and France to pay off their wartime debts
b. manufacturing output as a whole reached an all time peak
c. the Federal Reserve Board was able to reduce interest rates to historically low levels
d. per capita GNP was twice as high as it had been five years earlier
B
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The government destroyed the IWW during the war by using:
A) the Espionage act. B) the National Labor Relations Control Act. C) the Sedition Act. D) the draft to force radical labor leaders into the military.
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A) railroad companies B) immigrants C) eastern settlers D) Native Americans E) Mexicans
In 1916, President Wilson appointed Louis Brandeis, a Jew, to the Supreme Court
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.