By 1929, the United States produced more than 40 percent of the world's manufactured goods.
a. true
b. false
a. true
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Which of these does not describe the ways in which Americans responded to Jefferson's embargo?
a. The Federalist party gained new converts and was revived to fight it. b. New England threatened to secede from the United States. c. Farmers of the South and West were as adversely impacted by the embargos as their counterparts in New England. d. Southern states promised not to enforce the embargo and took steps to break away from the Union. e. Americans engaged in an illicit trade at the Canadian border and cursed it as "Dambargo."
As proof that the United States did not require "permission slips" from other nations to act in her own self interest, conservatives in the United States in the early 2000s pointed to the
A) patent inadequacy of the UN's response to various conflicts in the recent past, such as doing nothing in the nineties in Bosnia while innocents were warehoused in modern day concentration camps within the very borders of a sanctimonious and disinterested Europe. B) general inadequacy of international bodies that did not act strongly and decisively to quell threats to world peace, as proved by the failure of the League of Nations to halt fascist and expansionist aggression by Germany, Italy, and Japan in the thirties. C) unconscionable fact that the UN Human Rights Commission had been taken over by repressive nations who routinely practiced summary imprisonment and brutal torture, and that a poster child of this repression, Libya, was absurdly elected by these violent nations to head the UN Human Rights Commission in 2002. D) lack of energetic action by the UN, which had allowed the brutal and abject slaughter of many hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Rwanda by machete and burning fueled by ethnic hatred in the nineties, and which could have been avoided had the international community shown concern. E) None of these
What role did President Theodore Roosevelt play in the great coal strike of 1902?
A) He played no role at all in settling the dispute. B) He sympathized completely with the company owners. C) He decided to support the Pure Food and Drug Act. D) He essentially decided to support the coal miners. E) He shut down the mines for two months.
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