What prompted the easy new credit available in the 1920's?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Wages were not high enough for consumers to purchase all the new goods being manufactures. Farmers faced falling crop prices. When everyone reached their credit limit, banks called loans that people could not pay.
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Which of the following was the first treaty to reduce the number of nuclear weapons deployed by the superpowers?
A. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty B. The Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty C. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty D. The U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as START I
The population of Bent's Fort illustrates which broader pattern of American settlement into new areas?
A) frontier of inclusion B) frontier of exclusion C) conflict D) assimilation
President Grover Cleveland justified sending federal troops to break the Pullman strike of 1894 on the grounds that
a. the union's leader, Eugene V. Debs, was a socialist. b. strikes against railroads were illegal. c. the strikers were engaging in violent attacks on railroad property. d. shutting down the railroads threatened American national security. e. the strike was preventing the delivery of U.S. mail.
Why did Mao champion the peasants as a revolutionary force? Why was this proposal so radical? Compare Mao's philosophy to that of Marx and Lenin.
What will be an ideal response?