To finance the war effort, on what did the U.S. government primarily rely?
a. higher income tax rates
b. printing paper money for war debts
c. sales of "Liberty Bonds"
d. new discoveries of gold in Alaska
e. loans from foreign governments
C
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A) Spartacus movement B) National Fascist Party C) Freikorps D) National Socialist German Workers’ Party
All of the following developments fueled the Atlantic slave trade by 1750 EXCEPT
A) the labor demands of the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Brazil, and New Spain. B) new states in West Africa growing rich off the slave trade to the Americas. C) the transfer of millions of slaves from the interior of Africa to the western coast for sale and shipment to the Americas. D) the relatively high demand for African slaves in all of New England.
One of the factors that promoted America's search for new markets between 1865 and 1900 was
A) industrial and agricultural overproduction. B) an increase in domestic consumption. C) a decline in American industrial production because of the depression of 1893. D) a decline in demand for American goods abroad.
The Battle of Antietam in 1862 was considered a major turning point of the Civil War because __________
A) the victory afforded President Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation B) it was the last time Confederate troops would enter Union territory C) General Robert E. Lee was never again as aggressive for the rest of the campaign in Virginia D) Confederate forces were forced to hurriedly withdraw into the Carolinas