New business innovations typically put some workers out of their jobs. What job all but disappeared as mail order houses and chain stores appeared?

A) traveling sales "drummer"
B) mail clerk
C) telegraph operator
D) iceman


Answer: A

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A. a promise to return to a laissez-faire style of government B. a promise to give direct relief aid to the unemployed and underemployed C. a promise to enact policies that differed from President Hoover's D. a promise to continue President Hoover's social aid programs

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Objects made from what material were used much more frequently by Neolithic man than by Paleolithic man?

A) fired clay B) bronze C) iron D) glass E) wood

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The house of Medici built its fortune selling slaves to the Ottomans

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Brown's administration oversaw a number of changes in state government and electoral politics that earned California a national reputation for efficient government. These reforms included all of the following except

a. ending the cross-filing system in elections. b. apportioning senators by districts based on population instead of by county. c. creating the Constitutional Revision Commission to streamline the state bureaucracy, increase city and county control over local affairs, and implement other reforms. d. supporting the division of assembly districts so that more minority candidates could be elected.

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