When, in late 1995, President Clinton refused to give in to the demands of the Republican-controlled 104th Congress concerning the federal budget, the Congress _______________________.
A. adjourned
B. brought impeachment charges against President Clinton
C. publicized incriminating evidence from the Whitewater investigation concerning Hillary Rodham Clinton
D. refused to pass a continuing budget resolution, thus forcing the government to suspend all nonessential activities
Answer: D
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a. encouraging American manufacturers to produce for overseas markets. b. forcing European producers to lower their prices in order to sell in American markets. c. inducing Europeans to raise their own tariff barriers, virtually killing international trade. d. enabling American farmers to dump their products overseas and thus maintain higher prices at home. e. creating increased American trade with Mexico and Canada, which were not covered by the tariff barriers.
How did conservatives in Asia respond to the massive societal changes wrought by the new industrial age?
a. They embraced change and hoped to learn from the West. b. They saw change as an opportunity to build their economies. c. They saw these changes as western ideas that threatened their social, political and economic systems. d. They began to build their military might to safeguard against western imperialism. e. They sought to ban missionaries and western teachers from their countries.
An initial, important role was played in German industrialization by
A) German liberals. B) visiting British entrepreneurs. C) American economic advisers. D) the Prussian government. E) the military sector.
One important difference between the Roman and Han empires was that
A. Rome relied on an extensive bureaucracy, while the Han relied mostly on hierarchies of personal ties and loyalties. B. the Han bureaucracy was far smaller and less organized than the Roman central state. C. the Han employed an extensive army of bureaucrats to rule, while the Romans relied heavily on patron-client relationships to carry out imperial expansion. D. women in the Han empire were able to obtain far more authority and privileges than in the Roman empire.