What led to the stock market crash of October 1929?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Productive capacity in key consumer industries outpaced demand.
2. Investors ignored signs of weakness in the economy.
3. Margin buying put many investors at serious risk of losing everything.
4. The stock market became a national obsession, obscuring real economic problems.
5. The crash came suddenly and its effects spilled over to the larger economy.
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Criticism of the World Trade Organization centers mainly on what issue?
a. The way deregulation favors multinational corporations b. Environmental regulations c. Labor unions d. Military dictatorships e. Human rights
In April, 1866, for the first time in American history, a major piece of legislation became law over a presidential veto. It was the
A) Civil Rights Act. B) Wade-Davis Act. C) Thirteenth Amendment. D) Freedman's Bureau Act.
The Second Great Awakening affected women in which of the following ways? a. The movement adversely affected women by blaming them for the sins of American society. b. The only impact the movement had on women was to reinforce the cult of domesticity. c. By participating in organizations advocating moral reform, many women became politically involved for thefirst time
d. Both the Episcopal and Methodist denominations allowed women to rise to the rank of bishop.
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
A. created a five-person agency to oversee the act. B. put in place a series of regulations for railroad companies. C. had little practical effect for almost two decades. D. both created a five-person agency to oversee the act, and had little practical effect for decades. E. All these answers are correct.