For Jefferson, one of the most important reasons for the Louisiana Purchase was that it
A) secured access to the mouth of the Mississippi River.
B) supported American claims to gold deposits in the Midwest.
C) opened new territory for the expansion of slavery.
D) provided land which could be used to back up the new paper money issued by the National Bank.
A
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Hurting a speedy recovery of the financial crisis in 2008 was due to
A) soaring interest rates. B) banks refused to give new loans. C) decreasing foreign investments. D) increasing unemployment.
How did the command economy of the Communist bloc change in the 1970s?
A) The government banned Western TV and periodicals. B) The "technology gap" became narrower. C) The economics betrayed signs of a breakdown. D) Workers were generally peaceful and well satisfied. E) Significant strides were made toward a free market economy.
The ____ class in Koreas was known as the yangban
a. merchant b. warrior c. peasant d. priestly e. aristocratic
When the Maya captured commoners, they typically enslaved them for hard labor, while this group almost always became sacrificial victims
a. all prisoners of war b. drafted commoners who "lost" the lottery c. slaves who were old or no longer valuable d. captured nobility from other areas