What were the consequences of the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. In the long run the repeal was probably necessary, reducing the flight of gold out of the country and, also in the long run, it boosted business confidence.
2. In the short term it contracted the currency and led to deflation.
3. Economic hard times continued as the stock market remained listless, businesses continued to close, unemployment spread, and farm priced dropped.
4. The repeal discredited the Democrats and helped reshape American politics.
5. The repeal confined the Democratic Party largely to the South and helped the Republicans
become the majority party.
6. The repeal focused national attention on the silver issue, setting up silver as the key issue in the election of 1896.
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A) tribunes. B) consuls. C) king. D) senators. E) plebeians.
The Lend Lease Act of March 1941 authorized:
a) lending British naval bases to the United States b) "lending" U.S. volunteers to any army they wanted to join c) lending destroyers to England for the duration of the war d) lending military equipment to nations the president deemed vital to America's defenses
Galen worked in what discipline?
A) medicine B) astronomy C) mathematics D) architecture
What caused the Chinese to be closed to the idea of Westerners?
A) The Jesuit missionaries had not worked so hard at converting the peasants. B) The Portuguese had offended Chinese sensibilities so much that they were temporarily expelled from the country. C) The Portuguese and the Dutch had not jockeyed for a favorable trade position when they arrived in China. D) Missionaries had inadvertently brought several deadly diseases with them. E) They had not tried to force Western scientific ideas on the Chinese.