Upon taking office in 2009, which of the following did President Obama advocate to deal with the economic crisis?
a. increasing the interest rates
b. increasing government spending
c. lowering taxes
d. reducing taxes
Answer: b
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What will be an ideal response?
Mitchell J. Landrieu asserts New Orleans as an important starting place for the future removal of Confederate monuments in the United States. What reasoning does he use to make this point?
A. New Orleans’ role as a major city in the state with the most Confederate monuments in the country marks the removals as the beginning of a crucial but difficult endeavor. B. The contrast between the city’s current diversity and its significant history of slave trading marks the removals as profound alterations to public representations of history. C. The important battles that were fought in the city during the Civil War parallel the removals with the war’s ideological struggles. D. The city’s troubled civil rights history gives the removals significance as continuations of the struggles of civil rights leaders.
Studies of how casualty rates affect public opinion show that as death rates rise, people
A. develop more favorable attitudes toward the war. B. support withdrawal from the war. C. support surrender. D. support escalation in the fighting to defeat the enemy more quickly. E. support withdrawal after a series of powerful strikes.
Traditionally, courts have assumed
a. a hands-off approach to offenders once they were behind prison walls. b. a hands-on approach to offenders once they were behind prison walls. c. that prisoners would need constant supervision and thus frequent court interactions with prisoners is the norm. d. that all prisoners need is rehabilitation during their incarceration.