During the Great Recession, with the value of their homes and stock market accounts in free fall, Americans cut back on spending, leading to business failures and a rapid rise in unemployment.
a. true
b. false
a. true
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Which ancient Indian people were responsible for building the large settlement at Chaco Canyon in New Mexico?
a. Cherokees b. Aztecs c. Mound Builders d. Creeks e. Anasazis
Anti-imperialists argued against seizing foreign colonies because
a. the colonies would become targets of America's enemies. b. holding colonies violated the American spirit of democracy. c. colonies would increase the number of undesirable immigrants to the United States. d. America lacked the money to improve the situations in new colonies.
In his August 1963 speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial delivered to 250,000 black and white Americans, Martin Luther King Jr., declared: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' "
a. true b. false
Current scholarship in the plague __________.
A. still includes debates over the origin and spread of the Black Death B. has concluded the plague was spread by fleas, and this accounts for its prevalence across temperature and humidity ranges C. was not actually spread by fleas on rats but through direct human contact D. questions whether the bubonic plague had the impact previously believed