What crop is credited with improving Louisiana's economy after the American Revolution?
A. cotton
B. rice
C. sugar cane
D. tobacco
Ans: C. sugar cane
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As the economy changed in the early 20th century, Henry Ford led the way with new policies that other corporations would soon follow, most notably
A) pioneering a style of management that delegated corporate decisions to professionals in specialized divisions. B) instituting worker-management teams to share decision making about production. C) paying his workers higher wages to encourage consumerism. D) breaking labor unions and replaced them with industry "worker associations." E) paying his workers low wages to increase the profit margin.
Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative called for
A) increasing the production of nuclear missiles. B) ?launching a spy program to uncover Soviet nuclear secrets. C) ?calling for the defeat of all communism at home and abroad. D) ?creating an atmosphere-based defensive shield that can intercept and destroy nuclear missiles before they struck U.S. soil. E) ?All of these are correct.
The two major battles of World War I in which United States forces engaged the Central Powers in 1918 were
a. Ypres and the Ardennes Forest. b. Verdun and the Somme. c. Gallipoli and Locarno. d. Jutland and Trafalgar. e. St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
What was the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 intended to stop?
a. global warming b. ethnic cleansing c. nuclear proliferation d. poverty e. neocolonialism