In 1971, President Nixon tried to control inflation by
A) freezing wages and prices for 90 days.
B) spurring investment through major tax cuts for the wealthy.
C) increasing the supply of money in the economy.
D) returning the dollar to the gold standard.
A
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Between 1774 and 1777, the French
A) remained indifferent toward the affairs of England and her colonies. B) repeatedly expressed their sympathy for colonial pleas for political liberty and republican government. C) secretly funneled war goods, loans, and subsidies to the American colonists. D) sided with Britain because they saw the American Revolution as a threat to monarchy and imperial authority.
Which group revived the folk music of the Great Depression era?
A) ?beatniks B) ?urban African-Americans C) ?rural musicians D) ?white, middle-class college students E) ?young, working-class Americans
Cotton became important to the prosperity of the entire nation because
a. about three-fourths of the southern cotton crop was sold to New England textile mills. b. western merchants handled the shipping of southern cotton. c. it generated about half of the United States' export earnings after 1840. d. northern farmers profited from selling their foodstuffs to feed southern slaves. e. cotton futures had come to dominate investment and trading activity.
William Lloyd Garrison advocated
a. gradually emancipating slaves, once they were converted to Christianity. b. immediately emancipating slaves with no compensation for slaveholders. c. encouraging slaves to volunteer to resettle in Africa to spread Christianity. d. encouraging slaveholders to treat their slaves as humanely as possible.