In response to the depression, many prominent business leaders
a. advocated using Mussolini's reforms in Italy as the model for establishing a corporatist society.
b. believed that economic downturns were a beneficial and natural part of the business cycle and simply shouldbe allowed to run their course
c. advised President Hoover to rigidly enforce antitrust laws in order to restore competition.
d. actively campaigned for the implementation of a federal jobs program.
b
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Where were Indians and European settlers most likely to create a "middle ground" of mutual accommodation in the seventeenth century?
a. On the Atlantic seaboard b. Florida c. Inland areas around the Great Lakes d. Latin America e. The southern Piedmont region
In the Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Roger Taney asserted that:
A) Dred Scott had become a free man by virtue of having been moved temporarily to a free state. B) Congress had no right to prohibit slavery anywhere in the United States. C) whites could never be found guilty of murdering a slave. D) Dred Scott was guilty of running away from his owner. E) Dred Scott had never set up residence personally in either Illinois or Wisconsin, so he was not free.
The mandate of heaven
A. positioned China as a theocracy ruled by priests. B. created the notion of the Chinese emperors as gods. C. gave the Chinese emperors unlimited power. D. allowed the ruler to serve as a link between the heavens and the earth. E. originated with the Indo-Europeans before they reached China.
At the turn of the twentieth century, motion pictures
A. operated under strict morality codes. B. both were the first true mass entertainment medium, and operated under strict morality codes. C. were the first true mass entertainment medium. D. had been invented by D. W. Griffith. E. All these answers are correct.