What effect did the American government have on industrial growth?
A) It followed a policy of laissez-faire.
B) It closely regulated the pace of growth.
C) It provided incentives for growth.
D) It balanced agrarian and industrial demands.
E) It increased taxes on industry.
Answer: C
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What differences existed between how political leaders assumed the bailout plan of 2008 would work and how it actually worked?
A. Political leaders assumed the bailout plan would provide banks with the means to avoid bankruptcy and stay in business, but many went out of business anyway. B. Political leaders assumed that banks would use the bailout money to help Americans stay in their homes, but most Americans were not interested in taking on any new debt, even if it meant losing their homes. C. Political leaders assumed that the bailout plan would provide banks with the means to start lending again and stimulate an economic revival, but banks did not focus on making loans to creditworthy businesses and individuals. D. Political leaders assumed that the bailout plan would provide banks with the means to hire new employees, thus jump-starting the economy, but the banks used the money to provide bonuses to its own leadership.
The life of Anthony Johnson, an African slave who first arrived in Virginia in 1621, illustrated that
A) from the beginning, black immigrants faced a life of degradation and bondage. B) living conditions for colonial blacks steadily improved through the seventeenth century. C) racial boundaries were not firmly marked in the early seventeenth century. D) colonial blacks could gain their freedom by working industriously on the land.
Globalization , deregulation, introduction of new technologies, new management practices, and new corporate structures served to destabilize working class life and increasingly concentrate wealth into top income brackets from the late 80s into the millennium.
a. true b. false
Since 1989, Chile has
a. Become a Communist state b. Become the most prosperous nation in Latin America c. Returned to benevolent military dictatorship d. Built up its military e. All of the above