Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs were investment banks that were

A) not allowed to speculate in the stock market and were federally insured.
B) free to speculate in the stock market and were federally insured.
C) not allowed to speculate in the stock market but not federally insured.
D) free to speculate in the stock market but not federally insured.


Answer: D

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A) end the feudal military occupation of the South. B) establish democratic voting and property rights for the former slaves. C) re-establish the rule of the planter aristocracy in the South. D) restore property damaged in the Civil War. E) distribute former plantation land to freed slaves.

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Which of the following helps explain Andrew Jackson’s concerns and anxieties about banks?

a. his father’s economic problems b. his own brushes with bankruptcy c. his experience working in a large bank d. his understanding of the Constitution

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What will be an ideal response?

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c. emerging middle class business partners in Venezuela and Peru. d. repressive military regimes in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. e. popular referendum in Columbia, Panama and Nicaragua, fighting against encroaching Marxists.

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