During the 1970s, __________
A) real wages declined
B) the number of Americans living in poverty fell
C) unemployment reached a peak of 21 percent
D) the gap between the rich and poor narrowed
A
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What colony staged a successful slave revolt in 1791 against an imperial power propelled by the same ideas of the philosophers cited by North American revolutionaries?
A) Saint Domingue (modern Haiti) B) Jamaica C) Puerto Rico D) Cuba
Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?
a. England b. Africa c. Ireland d. The German states e. The Netherlands
Of the 12 million people who lived in the South in 1860, how many were slaves?
A) 1 million B) 3 million C) 4 million D) 6 million
The Resumption Act of 1875 __________
A) called for the government to cease minting gold coins B) called for the government to continue to withdraw paper greenbacks C) was opposed by the Greenback Labor party D) allowed for the resumption of silver mining