How did Barack Obama address the economic recession that began in 2008 and led to massive unemployment?
A) He signed a $787 billion economic stimulus package that included funds for infrastructure projects.
B) He pushed banks to foreclose on faulty mortgages and refine their lending practices.
C) He urged Wall Street to offer higher compensation packages to executives who make wise investments that could aid the nation's economy.
D) He rejected a bailout for the ailing auto industry and instead urged car companies to shore up their business plans.
E) He vetoed the Dodd-Frank law.
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a) won by a landslide, beating Hubert Humphrey everywhere but Massachusetts and Minnesota b) almost lost to Hubert Humphrey, who made several political blunders near the end of the campaign c) won in a three-way election, partly due to voter outrage against social excesses of the times d) lost his party's nomination, so ran as a third-party candidate
Karl Marx believed that all of human history was the story of
A. the survival of the fittest. B. the class struggle. C. the ends justifying the means. D. peasant rebellions. E. nationalism.
The leader of the brutally suppressed Russian rebellion in 1773 and 1775 was ________
A. David Hume B. Emelyan Pugachev C. Josiah Wedgwood D. Robert Jacques Turgot E. John Locke
What philosophy distinguished Anabaptists from other forms of Protestantism?
a. Their belief in the complete separation of church and state. b. Insistence on immediate infant baptism in case the child died. c. Devotion to predestination. d. All members were required to be literate and read the Bible daily. e. Complete rejection of meat and alcohol.