Which of the following statements regarding the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 is true?
A) ?It defined the final border of the continental United States.
B) ?It cost the United States $30 million.
C) ?It gave the United States a clear route for the building of the southern transcontinental railroad.
D) ?Both that it defined the final border of the continental U.S. and cost $30 million
E) ?Both that it defined the final border of the continental U.S. and provided a clear route for constructing a southern transcontinental railroad.
E
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Why did the nonviolent civil rights movement give way, on the eve of its greatest successes, to more radical black nationalism and a climate of violence?
What will be an ideal response?
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A) On the one hand, slave owners felt it threatened their livelihood, but on the other hand, abolitionists felt it did little to end slavery. B) It did nothing to affect slavery or the slave trade in the U.S. and only frustrated relations with European allies. C) On the one hand it appeased anti-slavery European allies, but on the other hand it frustrated U.S. slave owners. D) It only granted African Americans freedom, not any voting or civil rights, yet it infuriated their slave owners. E) It appeased southern slave owners, but infuriated northern abolitionists.
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-consumer prices dropped suddenly. -unemployment and inflation rates rose dramatically. -the level of consumer borrowing declined suddenly. -banks lowered their interest rates unexpectedly.