Which action did President Hoover take to remedy the depression following the 1929 stock market crash?
A) ?He initiated a massive public works program.
B) ?He set up presidential committees to coordinate volunteer relief efforts.
C) ?He proposed legislation to have the government underwrite failed banks.
D) ?He discouraged the Federal Reserve System from allowing businesses to borrow.
B
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During the second half of the eighteenth century
A) all of the great powers grew in population except Russia. B) population growth occurred despite increased death and infant mortality rates. C) the absence of war and the elimination of most major diseases led to rapid population growth. D) the rate of population growth was nearly double that of the first half of the century. E) unsanitary conditions in European cities led to a population collapse.
Which of the following INCORRECTLY describes the fate of the eleven or twelve million Africans forcefully moved to the New World?
a. Some 13 to 30 percent died during the trans-Atlantic passage. b. About 600,000 of these were sent to British North America; by 1830, though, North American slaves accounted for a third of all slaves in the New World. c. Upon arrival, they were auctioned off naked and greased to improve their appearance. d. In Brazil and the West Indies, slaves were worked to death and then replaced. e. Generally, slaves worked eleven-hour days seven days a week.
Giuseppe Garibaldi's convictions and accomplishments include all the following EXCEPT
a. women's equality, workers' rights, end to the death penalty, and liberation of all subjugated nations. b. effective leadership of a popular uprising. c. armed liberation of Sicily and a bloodless takeover of Naples. d. a surprisingly easy conquest of Rome. e. the subordination of his own personal ambitions to the needs of Italy.
Which of the following was most responsible for the beginning of the the recovery in Europe after World War II?
What will be an ideal response?