Passage of the Judiciary Act of 1891 indicated __________.
A. a bipartisan effort to appoint honest judges to the federal courts system
B. the Supreme Court's desire to control big business
C. the U.S. Supreme Court would take on fewer cases with the creation of courts of appeals
D. voters wanted to curb the power of the federal courts system
Answer: C
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All of the following statements are true about the economic depression from 1893 to 1897, EXCEPT:
a. Thanks to careful record keeping in the federal government, we know that the unemployment rate in the manufacturing sector in 1893-1894 was 32 percent. b. Railroad construction had driven the industrial economy in the 1880s and had slowed by half between 1893 and 1895. c. With insufficient traffic to pay their fixed costs, railway companies went bankrupt, and so did many of their creditors ? banks and bondholders. d. The agricultural expansion of the 1880s had slowed down in the 1890s.
A business incurs operating costs by paying
a. interest on a bank loan b. property taxes on the government c. rent to a landlord d. wages to hourly employees
Which statement best describes marriage in Renaissance Italy?
a. Young men asked women for their hand in marriage, after a lengthy courtship. b. Husbands were generally the same age as their spouses. c. Parents usually arranged marriages for their children to strengthen alliances. d. Men and women waited longer to get married than in the Middle Ages. e. Men and women married earlier than in the Middle Ages because of increased economic opportunities.
Which of the following was NOT a factor in the deteriorating and periodically violent relationship between native tribes and British settlers between 1660 and 1700?
A) Competition for land between British colonists and Indian tribes B) Religious differences between British colonists and Indians C) Britain's economic and political competition with other European powers D) Cultural differences between British colonists and various Indians about land use, gender roles, and language E) Indian support of African slave revolts against their British slaveholders