What was the Federal Reserve?

A) a network of nationalized banks
B) an agency created to oversee and regulate trade
C) a bank that held funds in reserve for times of crisis
D) a banking system designed to compete with and overcome Wall Street
E) an office devoted to breaking up industrial trusts


C

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A) Act of Union. B) Six Articles. C) Act of Toleration. D) Act of Succession. E) Act of Supremacy.

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The Half-Way Covenant signaled the

A) emergence of a colonial elite in the Chesapeake colonies. B) decline of religious fervor in New England. C) balancing out of the sex ratio in the Chesapeake colonies. D) rejection of commercial values in New England.

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Metternich's approach to European politics involved

a. working to revoke the settlement of the Congress of Vienna. b. the approach that moderate liberalization of government may be a good thing. c. the conviction that someday soon Austria must attack Russia. d. working for a restoration of a balance of power. e. giving power to the middle class.

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In terms of agriculture, by the second century B.C.E., the Han experienced

a. an overabundance of unused land b. land shortages and population pressures c. massive famines due to typically low yields d. a decrease in farming as the population decreased e. a rejection of urbanized society in favor of a return to farming

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