During the world-wide depression in the 1930s, the unemployment rate rose higher and remained higher longest in
A) the United States. B) Great Britain. C) France. D) Germany.
A
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The recognition of the independence of the Netherlands and Switzerland in the Peace of Westphalia reflects the decline of __________ power.
A) French and English B) Swedish and Danish C) Ottoman and Italian D) Spanish and Imperial
One trend of the period 1946–1950 was
a. further segregation in professional sports. b. a growth of power for organized labor. c. a declining fear in the threat of Communism. d. a significant increase in the number of babies being born.
Which of the following statements concerning the fall of Rome is accurate?
a. The fall of Rome was a single event that occurred in A.D. 476. b. Multiple forces operated concurrently to bring about the fall. c. External threats, rather than internal problems, account for the fall of Rome. d. The effects of the fall were felt equally throughout the Roman Empire. e. Rome maintained the loyalty of its people until the very end.
The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to
a. the reopening of the African slave trade in 1808. b. imports of slaves from the West Indies. c. natural reproduction. d. reenslavement of free blacks. e. the deliberate "breeding" of slaves by plantation owners.