Which statement best describes Franklin Roosevelt's position concerning the Depression in the 1932 presidential campaign?
A) He clearly outlined specific programs that would end the depression.
B) He called for the United States to abandon the gold standard.
C) He promoted a policy of massive spending by the federal government.
D) He promised to end the depression but offered only vague plans describing how he was going to do it.
E) He claimed the depression was just an economic cycle and would eventually correct itself.
D
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A) The newly freed slaves were a strong first line of defense on the Spanish side of the border against their common enemy, the British. B) The newly freed slaves could be conscripted into the Spanish army to fight the Seminole Indians in Florida. C) The newly freed slaves would be an important free labor source to harvest the profitable raw materials exported from Florida by Spain. D) The newly freed slaves in Spanish Florida could serve as examples for other Spanish colonies about the important economic and defense contributions that freed blacks could make to their colonies.
The term sociologists use to describe how we learn gender is:
a. socialization. b. hegemonic masculinity. c. multiple jeopardy. d. gender socialization.
One result of the 2003 Iraq War was Iraq's election of a democratic government that has struggled to contain ethnic and religious strife within the nation
A) True B) False
The Wall Street crash __________
A) was triggered by excessive government spending B) only affected middle-class Americans C) was caused by the low level of investment in the 1920s D) marked the beginning of the depression, but did not cause it