The banking crisis that began in the United States in 1929 was caused in part by ____________.
A. the Federal Reserve Board's decision to raise the discount rate several times during the previous year
B. enactment of legislation during the Coolidge administration to impose higher taxes on interest income
C. risky loans made during the 1920s
D. the collapse of the World Bank
Answer: C
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A) put battleships in the Atlantic to protect American interests in Asia. B) lend weapons and supplies to all nations fighting either the Germans or the Japanese. C) lend American soldiers to France and Britain to assist them in war. D) send advisers to assist any country fighting the Germans. E) form a peace alliance with Hitler in exchange for arms and ammunition.
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a. astrolabes. b. caravels. c. portolani. d. horoscopes. e. sea charts.
In the mid-1990s, medical treatment for AIDS in the United States
A. failed to significantly improve the health of most patients. B. allowed for dramatic improvement for most patients through protease inhibitors. C. led researchers to claim they had found a cure. D. eliminated the disease entirely. E. had made few advances since the mid-1980s.
Unlike many other philosophes of the Enlightenment, Rousseau __________.
A. questioned materialism B. promoted formal religious institutions C. believed government was inherently corrupt D. argued against laissez-faire economics