The extended life expectancy and healthiness of the New England population
a. produced a feeling of public optimism and cheerfulness.
b. led to an increase in procrastination and laziness among the working class.
c. created a large number of elderly dependents and caused economic stagnation.
d. enhanced the power of women in society.
e. limited opportunities for young men who wanted to hold political office.
e
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A. Spice Islands B. Batavia C. Hispaniola D. Dominican E. Good Hope Islands
When it was passed in 1913, the Federal Reserve Act
A) gave the country a central banking system for the first time since Andrew Jackson. B) decentralized and democratized the federal banking system. C) removed America from the gold standard for the first time. D) immediately weakened the power of the great New York banks.
The Tokugawa policy of sakoku emphasized
A. production of exports by manufacturing corporations. B. a closed country system emphasizing domestic production of goods. C. continuation of tradition feudal systems with daimyos obeying the Shogun. D. modernization along western democratic lines. E. empire building throughout Southeast Asia.
The leader of the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence, and a persuasive spokesman for pan-African unity, was
A. Bernard Dadié. B. Marcus Garvey. C. Kwame Nkrumah. D. Frantz Fanon. E. Jomo Kenyatta.