To John D. Rockefeller, the great "curse" of business in the late nineteenth century was

A. the corporate tax.

B. the income tax.

C. the chronic labor shortage.

D. cutthroat competition.

E. government regulation.


D

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a. to recognize their past contributions, while convincing the reader that kulaks are no longer desirable b. to criticize the kulaks for exploiting the landless peasantry c. to convince the reader that he, Stalin, hates kulaks d. to establish that the liquidation of the kulaks is right, and that peasants recognize its inevitability

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Who was Honoré de Balzac?

A) He founded the style of literature known as Realism. B) He was a revolutionary in thought and wrote condemning political satires. C) He was an atheist that set the tone for an entirely new genre of literature. D) He wrote about such harsh topics as debtors' prisons and English workhouses. E) He was the author of Genealogy of Morals.

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At the beginning of the Civil War, the regular Union army had __________________ men

A) ?17,000 B) ?20,000 C) ?50,000 D) ?67,000 E) ?100,000

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What caused many of the former Confederate states to run up huge debts under Republican-controlled state governments in the late 1860s?

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