Which statement best describes the chief difference between Roosevelt and Hoover?s approaches to combating the Great Depression?
a. Roosevelt supported a laissez-faire economic policy.
b. Roosevelt encouraged Americans to voluntarily help.
c. Roosevelt advocated an active government role.
Ans: c. Roosevelt advocated an active government role.
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Why did both the Spanish and the Portuguese eventually enslave Africans to supply labor for them in the Americas?
A) Native Americans had successfully resisted attempts to enslave them. B) They had captured the Africans as prisoners of war. C) They were inspired by the systems of slavery they learned about in Africa. D) Disease had nearly wiped out the indigenous peoples of the lands they conquered. E) They wanted to take advantage of African knowledge about sugar cultivation.
The text stresses that the late-1800s phase of industrialization brought about not only corporations of great size but also
A. new political reforms to break the power of those corporations. B. a national network of complex systems of industry, invention, and information. C. the realization of the American dream of "rags to riches" for many industrial workers. D. powerful, all-inclusive labor unions.
In Renaissance Italy
A) those with the same surname did not often live near one another. B) the importance of the family helps explain the policy of retaliation involved in the vendetta. C) the family bond was generally considered unimportant. D) the family consisted of a nuclear household of parents and children. E) a crime committed by one family member did not reflect on the rest of the family.