One result of Republican hard money policies in the mid-1870s was
a. the rise of the American dollar against foreign currencies.
b. damage to the country's credit rating.
c. the return to the silver "Dollar of Our Daddies" as the dominant form of U.S. money.
d. the defeat of a Democratic House of Representatives in 1874.
e. a political turn to the Democrats and the rise of the new Greenback Labor party.
e
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A) to provide social, cultural, and educational activities for farmers B) to allow farmers to have a say in government C) to organize farmers into a union for collective bargaining D) to keep peace between farmers and cattlemen in the West E) to provide collective insurance for farmers and their land
How did the slave issue affect the United States' westward expansion?
What will be an ideal response?
Student radicalism in the 1960s was motivated by all of these reasons EXCEPT
a. the Vietnam War. b. Western society's growing materialism. c. fear of becoming a cog in Western society's bureaucracies. d. desire for more democratic decision-making within universities. e. demand for sexual freedom on campuses.
President James Madison made a major strategic foreign policy mistake that undermined his effort to persuade Britain to repeal its commercial restriction against American trade when he
a. accepted Napoleon's promise to repeal its trade restrictions. b. failed to suppress the war hawks in his own party. c. permitted Napoleon to offer financial aid to the United States. d. failed to take up Napoleon's suggestion that French trade restrictions would be lifted if the American trade restrictions on trade with France were repealed by the United States. e. tried to use Russia as a counterweight to Britain and France.