The greatest economic challenge faced by the Nixon administration involved ________
A) the reduction of government spending
B) a dramatic increase in international oil prices
C) the bankruptcy of the Federal Reserve System
D) the crisis in American farming
E) rampant unemployment
Answer: B
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a. focused primarily on retribution and punishment. b. viewed as the overall failure of society. c. corrected through reeducation. d. corrected through the informal networks of family and community.
According to the principle of popular sovereignty, __________ would determine whether a territory would have slavery
a. Congress b. territorial legislatures c. settlers d. the Supreme Court e. the House of Representatives
In the last half of the nineteenth century, the New South advocates supported
a. elimination of convict leasing b. expansion of southern industry c. creation of a southern literature critical of the Old South d. elimination of Jim Crow segregation e. limitation on West Indian migration to the United States
The institution of slavery became even more entrenched in the South because of the increasing importance of __________
A) rice B) indigo C) long-staple cotton D) short-staple cotton E) sugar cane