In 1996, President Clinton said, "When I took office [in 1993], only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web ... Now even my cat has its own page." This quotation attests to what aspect of the Internet?
A) the speed at which its use became widespread
B) the ease with which it can be used
C) the variety of information that can be found on it
D) the frivolity of the majority of its content
A
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The French government and aristocracy responded to the Jacquerie by
A) drafting the rebels into the army. B) taking no action and letting it run its course. C) negotiating a settlement with its leaders. D) massacring the participants. E) renouncing their historic privileges.
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.
The Treaty of Paris
a. established Cuba as an American colony. b. made Hawaii part of U.S. territory. c. established joint control of the Philippines by the United States and Spain. d. forced Spain to cede Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
What was the main purpose of the Continental Association formed at the First Continental Congress?
A) to foster improved relations between the various colonies B) to seek a conservative, peaceful resolution of the political crises of the mid-1770s C) to raise money to feed starving Indians displaced by western settlements D) to maintain a total boycott of all British imports E) to raise and equip armies to fight for the American cause