The so-called "Babson Break" was
A) a short-circuit in the power supply to the New York Stock Exchange.
B) the formula for making lots of money in the stock market.
C) a one-day drop in stock prices in September 1929.
D) the start of the stock market drop in October 1929.
Answer: C
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The availability of electric home appliances in the 1920s
A) eased the physical drudgery of housework. B) began a trend toward centralizing such household chores as laundering and baking. C) shortened the average housewife's work week. D) went far toward liberating women from their traditional social role.
Which of the following statements about China?s ?Great Leap Forward? is NOT true?
A) Thousands of backyard blast furnaces were built as part of the effort to increase the production of steel. B) A new system of agricultural production was launched made up of People?s Communes. C) Many areas of social life were run by communes. D) It proved to be successful and set the pattern for subsequent policy. E) It caused the deaths of 16?30 million Chinese.
For Gandhi, the spinning wheel represented ________
A) Hindu traditions B) British rule C) Indian independence D) technological advancement