The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affirmed the ________._

A. national government's reserve powers
B. national government's military powers
C. states' foreign treaty-making powers
D. states' reserved powers


ANSWER: D

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a. Medicare provides health care to the poor, and Medicaid provides health care to the elderly. b. Medicare provides health care to the elderly, and Medicaid provides health care to the poor. c. Medicare replaced Medicaid in order to provide health care to poor people as well as the elderly. d. Medicaid replaced Medicare in order to provide health care to poor people as well as the elderly.

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A researcher has decided to do a study of people who hunt in a nearby national forest. He asks a friend, whom he knows to be a hunter, if he would consent to an interview. He interviews his friend and then asks his friend if he could name other people who hunted in the forest. His friend provides him with five names. The researcher contacts those five people, interviews them, and asks each of those people for names of other hunters. This sampling technique is known as ______.

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