As a result of the War on Poverty,
a. the number of elderly Americans living in poverty declined dramatically.
b. rural poverty was practically eliminated.
c. health-care costs began a slow but steady decline.
d. poverty in households headed by women steadily declined over a period of ten years.
a
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a. He stopped dominating the position of consul, becoming a proconsul and tribune instead. b. He voluntarily relinquished his option of veto in the Senate. c. He agreed to maintain control of the legions only in Spain, Gaul, and Syria, and allowed the senate control of all others. d. He purposely refused the title of praetor to alleviate the worries of senators that he would become like Sulla. e. He offered to resign from all offices since he had stabilized the Republic.
The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into violent antislavery politics by __________.
a. organizing an armed militia of blacks and whites to conduct escaped slaves to Canada b. killing five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas c. leading an armed raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia d. organizing a slave rebellion in Missouri
A work group is _______
A) a small collection of people who interact for a common purpose B) usually an unproductive and unfocused collection of individuals C) non-goal oriented D) a group that contains the optimum number of diverse members