What effect did the Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act have on governmental finances?
A. Additional revenue caused a surplus lasting until World War I.
B. Additional revenues allowed cuts in personal income taxes.
C. Revenue losses forced the implementation of a graduated income tax.
D. Revenue losses led to structural deficits and an economic panic.
Answer: C
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During the 1820s New England storekeepers
a. shipped their goods to England and Europe. b. depended almost entirely on locally produced goods for their retail sales. c. depended on a barter exchange of goods and services, rather than cash sales. d. saw their business decline significantly. e. increased their stock of consumer goods significantly
Considering race and poverty rates for children:
a. approximately 1 in 3 Black children were living in extreme poverty in 2012, considerably. b. Black children were more than three times as likely as White children to live in extreme poverty in 2012. c. Half of Hispanic children lived in poverty in 2012. d. The majority of American Indian/Native Alaskan children lived in poverty in 2012.
The principal force behind the creation of great public buildings in the late nineteenth century was
A. community service organizations. B. ethnic political machines. C. wealthy residents. D. state governments. E. the federal government.
What did the American Colonization Society support?
a) deportation of freedmen b) overthrow of planters c) enslavement of yeoman farmers d) secession from the Union